What is the order of magnitude of 500,000?
1 Answer
Dec 30, 2015
5
Explanation:
The order of magnitude is the power of 10, when a number is written in its standard form.
Hence, the order of magnitude is 5!
Just to clarify, the standard form of any number is that number written as a single digit followed by a decimal point and decimal places, which is multiplied with a power of 10.
Here are a few examples: