Place value and decimals

Place value and decimals

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This task is about place value and decimals.

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Year 8
Questions/instructions:
a)  Multiply by ten:
     6 
     78 
     3.14 

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b) Write in figures:
     Five hundred and eighty 
     Two thousand five hundred and eighteen 
     Two hundred thousand and forty-three 

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c)  Subtract one hundred:
     400 
     643 
     40 000 

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d) Divide by one hundred:
     1200 
     50 
     3.6 
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Level:
4
Description of task: 
Students answer questions about place value.
Answers/responses: 
 
Y8 (09/2001)
a)
60
780
31.4
92%
83%
39%
b)
580
2518
200,043
91%
89%
50%
c)
300
543
39,900
95%
92%
47%
d)
12
0.5
0.036
65%
34%
20
 
NOTE: Questions from Number items B and C, NEMP, 2001