8.1.B.08 - Estimating Quantities - Exit Ticket

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Estimating Quantities

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.

Express each number as a single-digit integer times a power of ten.

How many times greater is the long-scale naming system than the short-scale?

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.