Convert 3214five to base ten

Answer 1

3214base 5 is...
4+1*5 + 2*25+3*125

Answer 2

3214₅ = 3(5)^3 + 2(5)^2 + 1(5) + 4
= .....

Tell your teacher that this conversion between bases is rather silly, unless the bases are base 2 or base 16 (used in computers)

Also tell him there are 10 kinds of people,
those that understand binary and those that don't

Answer 3

well, my zip code is 10011011100011100 in binary. This is exactly what the computers in the US postal service store the zip code as. For all the good it does them.

Answer 4

Bob, I wonder if I mailed you a letter with
1371C₁₆ as the code.
that would mess them up, eh?