Question

Mark the correct alternative of the following.
The smallest counting number is \[\]
A.0\[\]
B.1\[\]
C.10\[\]
D. None of these \[\]

Answer 1

Hint: We recall the definitions of counting numbers as the number using which we need to count. We also recall that the number that comes first during our counting is smaller than the numbers that come later. We use this knowledge to find the smallest counting number. \[\]

Complete step by step answer:
We know that we use numbers to count the things that we can see or touch. We can count the number of wheels in a truck, the number bags or notebooks in the classroom, number of leaves in trees because we can see or touch them. The numbers we use to count are called counting numbers. \[\]
We know that the numbers that we use first to count are always smaller than the numbers we use later. When we are asked to count for example trees or anything we start with the number 1. Since we use the number 1 first 1 is the smallest counting number.

Hence the correct option is A. \[\]

Note:
We note that 0 is not a counting number since we do not use 0 to count anything. The other name for counting numbers is the natural numbers because anything we use to count exists in nature. The number zero is a whole number. The numbers like integers or fractions though we use to calculate we do not use to count. We note that the largest counting number does not exist since we can add 1 to any number and get the larger number. We can always use the symbol $\left( < \right)$ to represent the relationship of counting numbers as $1 < 2 < 3$ and so on.