
Amanda S. answered 11/21/19
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There are a few ways you can answer this question. First, you could look at place values. The 1 is in the thousands place, the 2 is in the hundreds place, the 4 is in the tens place, and the 6 is in the ones place. You could also get a visual representation using base ten blocks.Using base ten blocks, she would have counted out the following for 1,246:
(1) thousand cube
(2) hundred flats
(4) ten sticks
(6) one cubes
Answer: There are 6 ones in the number 1,246.