Visual
Learning
Glossary
How Can You Explain Patterns in Visual Learning Bridge
the Number of Zeros in a Product?
A
Tamara’s new horse weighs about 1,000
pounds. How can you show 1,000 as a
power of 10 using an exponent?
The exponent is the
number that tells how many
times a base number is
used as a factor.
horse’s weight: 1,000 pounds
B Write 1,000 as a product using C Tamara estimates that her horse will
10 as a factor. eat about 5,000 pounds of hay each year.
factors exponent How can you write 5,000 using exponents?
5 × 10 1 = 5 × 10 = 50
,000 = 10 × 10 × 10 = 10 3
1
5 × 10 2 = 5 × 10 × 10 = 500
base
5 × 10 3 = 5 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 5,000
The exponent, 3, shows that the base
number, 10, is multiplied 3 times. The number of zeros in the product is the
same as the exponent.
So, 1,000 is written as 10 3 using
exponents. So, 5,000 is written as 5 × 10 3 using
exponents.
Convince Me! Look for Relationships What pattern do you
notice in the number of zeros in the products in Box C above?
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Name
Practice Tools Assessment
Do You Understand? Do You Know How?
1. Why are there three zeros in the
In 3 and 4, complete the pattern.
product of 6 × 10 3?
3. 10 1 =
10 2 =
10 3 =
2. Susan said that 10 5is 50. What mistake 10 4 =
did Susan make? What is the correct
answer? = 7 × 10 1
4.
= 7 × 10 2
= 7 × 10 3
= 7 × 10 4
In 5–15, find each product. Use patterns to help.
5. 3 × 10 1 = 6. 2 × 10 = = 9 × 10 1
7.
3 × 10 2 = 2 × 100 = = 9 × 10 2
3 × 10 3 = 2 × 1,000 = = 9 × 10 3
3 × 10 4 = 2 × 10,000 = = 9 × 10 4
8. 8 × 10 4 9. 4 × 1,000 10. 5 × 10 2 11. 6 × 10,000
12. 4 × 10 1 13. 100 × 9 14. 10 3 × 6 15. 8 × 10 5
16. Write 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10with an exponent.
Explain how you decided what exponent to write.
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17. One box of printer paper has 3 × 10 2 18. A post is put every 6 feet along a fence
sheets of paper. Another box has 10 3 around a rectangular field that is 42 ft
sheets of paper. What is the total number long and 36 ft wide. How many posts
of sheets in both boxes? are needed?
19. Number Sense A company had 20. An aquarium has the same shape as
9 × 10 6dollars in sales last year. Explain the solid figure shown below. What is
how to find the product 9 × 10 6. the name of this solid figure?
21. Model with Math Isaac takes 22. Higher Order Thinking Santiago
5 minutes to ride his bike down the hill hopes to buy a 4-horse trailer for about
to school and 10 minutes to ride up $12,000. Describe all the numbers that
the hill from school. He attends school when rounded to the nearest hundred
Monday through Friday. How many are 12,000.
minutes does he spend biking to and
from school in two weeks? Write an
equation to model your work.
Assessment Practice
23. Choose all the equations that are true. 24. Choose all the equations that are true.
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 40 6 × 10 5 = 6 × 100,000
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 10 4 6 × 10 5 = 6 × 10,000
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 1,000 6 × 10 5 = 600,000
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 10,000 6 × 10 5 = 60,000
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 4 × 10 4 6 × 10 5 = 650,000
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