1-1 Comparing and Ordering

Whole Numbers
Learn to compare and The midyear world
order whole numbers population in 1995
using place value or a was 5,694,418,460
number line.
people. The world
population by midyear
2015 is projected to
be 7,202,516,136
people. World Population
You can use place
1995 5,694,418,460
value to read and
understand large 1998 5,929,735,977
numbers. In the place Year
2000 6,081,527,896
value chart below,
2010 6,825,750,456
1 has a value of
1 ten thousand or 2015 7,202,516,136
1 hundred, depending 0 4.5 4.8 5.1 5.4 5.7 6.0 6.3 6.6 6.9 7.2 7.5
on its position in the Population (billions)
number. Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base, 2005

Place Value
s

s
red

red

red

red
nd

nd

nd

nd
es

es

es

es
s

s
Ten

Ten

Ten

Ten
On

On

On

On
Hu

Hu

Hu

Hu

7 , 2 0 2 , 5 1 6 , 1 3 6

Billions Millions Thousands Ones

Standard form: 7,202,516,136

Expanded form: 7,000,000,000  200,000,000  2,000,000  500,000 

10,000  6,000  100  30  6

Word form: seven billion, two hundred two million,

five hundred sixteen thousand,
one hundred thirty-six

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