## anonymous one year ago What is the best order-of-magnitude estimate for 58,100? 10^3 10^4 10^5 10^6

1. CherokeeGutierrez

the second one

2. anonymous

10^3=1,000-9,999 which is 4 digits 10^4=10,000-99,999 which is 5 digits 10^5=100,000-999,999 which is 6 digits 10^6=1,000,000-9,999,999 which is 7 digits

3. Koikkara

$$10^4 = 10,000 \approx 58,100$$ while, $$10^5$$ is the closer one to 58,100. @pmnodine $$\color{blue}{\huge\tt{Nice~}}$$ $$\huge\mathcal{to~meet~}$$ $$\color{red}{\huge\tt{You~!}}$$

4. anonymous

No its not. @Koikkara It is asking for orders of magnitude not "which number here is closest to 58,100?"

5. anonymous

Magnitude=digits.

6. Koikkara

hmm... I $$don't~ know$$ how to explain... $$10^4=10,000$$ $$10^5=1,00,000$$ but $$58,100$$ comes in the order of digits of this similiar fashion $$10,000$$ not $$1,00,000$$ @Shalante

7. anonymous

$10^{4}=10,000$ $10^{5}=100,000$ You just said it comes in similar fashion to 10,000 which is to the 4th power. Thats what I said earlier, but you mentioned 10^5