How many times less is 10^2 than 10^6? Express your answer as an integer power of 10.

Question

10^4
10^-4
10,000
0.0001

Answer 1

To find out how many times less 10^2 is than 10^6, we need to divide the larger number (10^6) by the smaller number (10^2).

10^6 / 10^2 = 10^(6-2) = 10^4

Therefore, 10^2 is 10^4 times less than 10^6.