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Question from Payton, a student: how many ten thousands makes one million? |
Hi Payton,
ten thousand is
10,000
and one million is
1,000,000
so to get from 10,000 to 1,000,000 you need to append two zeros. In other words you need to multiply 10,000 by 100.
Penny
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