Is One Lakh a Very Large Number? Eshwarappa asked Roxie and Estu, “Is a lakh big or small?” Class 7

Is One Lakh a Very Large Number? Eshwarappa asked Roxie and Estu, “Is a lakh big or small?” Class 7

Is One Lakh a Very Large Number? Eshwarappa asked Roxie and Estu, “Is a lakh big or small?” Class 7

Roxie feels that 1 lakh is a large number: 

1. “We had one lakh varieties of rice — that is a lot.”
2. “Living 1 lakh days would mean living for 274 years — that is a really long time!”
3. “If 1 lakh people stood shoulder to shoulder in a line they could stretch as far as 38 kilometres.”

Estu, however, thinks it is not that big:

1. “Do you know that the cricket stadium in Ahmedabad has a seating capacity of more than 1 lakh? One lakh people in such a small area!”
2. “Most humans have 80,000 to 1,20,000 hairs on their heads. Imagine, 1 lakh hairs fi in such a tiny space!”
3. “I heard that there are some species of fish where a female fish can lay almost one lakh eggs at once very comfortably. Some even lay tens of lakhs of eggs at a time.”

Question 1.

How do you view a lakh — is a lakh big or small? Class 7

Solution:

Not so big, it is small.

Question 2.

Write each of the numbers given below in words: Class 7

(a) 3,00,600

(b) 5,04,085

(c) 27,30,000

(d) 70,53,138

Solution:

(a) Three lakh six hundred.

(b) Five lakh four thousand eighty five.

(c) Twenty seven lakh thirty thousand.

(d) Seventy lakh fifty three thousand one hundred thirty eight.

Question 3.

Write the corresponding number in the Indian place value system for each of the following: Class 7

(a) One lakh twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six

(b) Four lakh seven thousand seven hundred and four

(c) Fifty lakhs five thousand and fifty

(d) Ten lakhs two hundred and thirty five

Solution:

(a) 1,23,456

(b) 4,07,704

(c) 50,05,050

(d) 10,00,235