Question

6th grade math book #2 pg. 438: 17. Suppose the population of the United States is about 230 billion. Is this number closer to 10 to the seventh or 10 to the eighth? Explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

What are 10^7 and 10^8?

Answer 2

10^7=10000000
10^8=100000000

Answer 3

230 billion = 23,000,000,000

10^7=10,000,000
10^8=100,000,000

What do you think?