Tutorials: Comparing Whole Numbers

Comparing Whole Numbers

To compare 384 thousand 5 hundred and 378 thousand, you start on the left. You notice that the first digit 3 hundred thousand are a 3 and 3 thus equal. Then you go to the next digit to the right. 8 and 7, 8 is greater than 7, and thus you can stop there. 80 thousand is greater than 70 thousand. Thus 384,500 is greater than 378,000, this also means 378,000 is less than 384,500