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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 69
#0, Powers
Posted by clueless on Jun-07-02 at 11:05 AM
what is ten to the 12th power ? how did you acheive the answer
thanks

#1, RE: Powers
Posted by alexb on Jun-07-02 at 11:56 AM
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Oh, boy. You should try to formulate your questions more carefully. In there present form they make little sense.

>what is ten to the 12th power ?

A number.

>how did you acheive the answer

I raised 10 to the power of 12.

If the above is not what you've been looking for, try posing your quesions in a different form.


#2, RE: Powers
Posted by JWPhil on Jun-08-02 at 08:06 PM
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Ten to the 12th power is 1,000,000,000,000.

I arrived at this answer by multiplying 10 by itself 12 times.


#3, RE: Powers
Posted by no name on Jun-29-02 at 09:20 AM
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ten to the 12th power is simply 1 with 12 zeroes after it (a trillion)
there is no need to multiply anything

ten to the 100th power is 1 with 100 zeroes after it
ten to the 0th power is 1 with 0 zeroes after it (1)


#4, RE: Powers
Posted by Willo on Nov-20-02 at 09:13 PM
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What you do first is you can multiply 10
tweleve times to get the answer. The mathematical
form in which to say it is ten to the twelevth power