standard_description: Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by:
- Reporting the number of observations.
- Describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement.
- Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.
- Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.
problem_activity: Problem 1
a.   How many do you see? How do you see them?
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b.   Instead of writing
$$10 \times 10$$
, we can write
$$10^2$$
, which we read “ten to the
power
of two.” The two is the
exponent
and tells us how many times we multiply 10 by itself. How would you represent the number of the smallest spokes in the image above as a power of 10?
Problem 2
a.   Write each of the following as a product of tens and in standard form.
$$10^4$$
$$10^6$$
b.   Write each of the following as a power of 10.
10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10
1,000,000,000
Problem 3
a.   Solve.
10 × 10,000 = ______
1,000 × 1,000 = ______
1,000,000 × 100 = ______
b.   How were powers of 10 useful in solving Part (a)?


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