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Exactly 195 digits have been used to number the pages in a book. How many pages does the book have?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
It's useful to recall that we humans use 10 as our source for counting and our columns for writing are Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands etc.
Th H T U
So saying 1234 as one Thousand two Hundred and Thirty Four could - more clumsily - be said as
one (ten lots of ten lots of ten) 2 (ten lots of ten) 3 (tens) and 4.
Looking at this practically here we have a heap of red dots and you see how they would be grouped to be counted, firstly in human 10's and then in Senda 6's.
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