Question

What are the digits in the hundreds place and the tens place in the number 5,870?

Answer 1

Hint: We are asked to find the digits present at the hundreds place and the tens place in the given number. To do so, first we will divide the number by 10 and find the quotient. The number in the ones place or the rightmost digit now is the number in the tens place in the original number. Next, we will divide by 10 again and from the quotient, the ones place digit or the rightmost digit will be the hundreds place digit of the original number.

Complete step by step solution:
In the question, we have been asked to find the digits present at the hundreds place and the tens place in the number 5,870. First, let us find the digit in the tens place by dividing the given number by 10 and observing the quotient. We get,
$\dfrac{5870}{10}=587$
Since, 7 is in the units place in the quotient, we can conclude that the tens place digit of 5,870 is 7.
Next, for finding the hundreds place digit we will further divide by another 10. Doing so, we get the quotient as,
$\dfrac{587}{10}=58.7$
58 is quotient and 7 is remainder, hence the units place digit in the quotient is 8 and it is the hundreds place digit of 5,870.

Note: To find the tens, hundreds, thousandth place digit of any number we simply divide by the respective number and find the units place number from the quotient. We can also think in a different way. The given number is a four digit number, indicating that it is between 1000 and 10,000 or we can say thousand and ten thousand. So, 5 in 5,870 would be in thousands place, 8 in hundreds place, 7 in tens place and 0 in unit place.