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Subject: numbers Eighth grade algebra extra worksheet to help students learn to think. Question: What is the highest number possible with 3 digits? The teacher said the answer is not 999 and that the question did not say "3-digit number." My answer then is 9 to the 99th power (written mathematically of course) as this uses "3 digits" and is obviously a huge number. Is this correct? Thank you.
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Hi Liz. You're definitely thinking along the right track. You correctly determined that 999 is larger than 999. Now how can you use two nines to make a number larger than 99? Stephen La Rocque.> |
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