Place Value: Every Digit Has a Place

The place of a digit is its position in a number. Its value is what the digit is worth in that position.

Read places from right to left: ones (units), tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands, hundred-thousands.
351,428
Hundred-
thousands
3300,000
Ten-
thousands
550,000
Thousands11,000
Hundreds4400
Tens220
Ones
(units)
88

351,428 = 300,000 + 50,000 + 1,000 + 400 + 20 + 8

Quick tip: Start with the last digit. It is always in the ones place. Then move left one place at a time.

Practice: Choose one answer

1. What is the place of 1 in 128?

2. Which digit is in the ones (units) place in 1,332?

3. What is the place of 7 in 4,785?

4. Which digit is in the tens place in 9,416?

5. Which number has 6 in the thousands place?

6. What is the value of 5 in 153,240?

7. In which number is 3 in the hundreds place?

 

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