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c. You could bag the toothpicks into sets of 10 toothpicks in each bag. Then when
you get 10 bags of 10 toothpicks in each, you could bundle, with a rubber band,
10 bags of 10 toothpicks to make sets of 100 toothpicks in each bundle. Then
when you have 10 bundles of 100 toothpicks, you could get a giant gallon sized
plastic bag and put them into it and group these 10 sets of 100 toothpicks into 1
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set of 1000 toothpicks. Using the place value system of representing numbers, 1
thousand is represented as 1000. Figure 1.3 shows a simple math drawing that
could be drawn.
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Figure 1.3: Representation of 1000
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