Most English-speaking countries use the short-scale naming system, in which a trillion is expressed as
1,000,000,000,000.
Some other countries use the long-scale naming system, in which a trillion is expressed as
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
10
1.
Express each number as a single-digit integer times a power of ten.
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10
2.
How many times greater is the long-scale naming system than the short-scale?
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From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 8 Mathematics Module 1, Topic B, Lesson 8. Internet. Available from https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-8-mathemat...; accessed 03/Nov/2015.