Exponents

Have you ever heard someone refer to a “million billion” of something? Is that more or less than a “billion million?” In this video, I’ll show you how to write down these numbers and figure out which one is larger.

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Download Student Worksheet & Exercises

Did one of these numbers sound bigger to you? To me, they’re both a strange way to say the exact same number – which is actually a quadrillion!

Exercises

Write out each number long-ways (with all the zeros written out):

1. A thousand million
2. A thousand billion
3. Ten million
4. A hundred billion

Write the exponential form (ten and a superscript) of the following numbers

5. A thousand million
6. A thousand billion
7. Ten million
8. A hundred billion

Determine the exponents of the following number if written in the form; ”ten and a superscript.”

9. 10,000,000,000
10. 100

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