Write Powers of Ten Using Exponents
Example Question Before Quiz
Express the following number as powers of ten.
1,000
Question Solution
An exponent tells you how many times its base is used as a factor.
When 10 is raised to a whole number exponent, its value has a leftmost digit of 1 and all other digits are 0. The exponent tells you how many 0s come after the 1.
To find the missing exponent, look at the right side of the equation and count the number of 0s after 1. 
10 ? = 1,000
There are 3 of them.
The missing exponent is 3.
103 = 1,000
Question 1
Express the following number as powers of ten.
100,000 104105106107
Question 2
Express the following number as powers of ten.
100 101102103104
Question 3
Which of the exponent number following is equivalent to 10,000,000? 105106107108
Question 4
What exponent will make this equation true?
10? = 10 12510
Question 5
Express the following number as powers of ten.
1,000,000 103104105106
Question 6
What exponent will make this equation true?
10? = 1,000,000,000 78910
Question 7
Express the following number as powers of ten.
10,000 102103104105
Question 8
Which of the exponent number following is equivalent to 1,000? 102103104105
Question 9
Express the following number as powers of ten.
10,000,000,000 1071081091010
Question 10
Express the following number as powers of ten.
100,000,000 108107109106
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