Monday, December 12, 2011

What is the value of 239twelve in base ten?

how do you figure out base ten? what does the twelve mean?|||2 * 12^2 + 3 * 12 + 9 * 1 will give you


333 in base 10





it is all about place values


333 means 3*10^2 + 3*10 + 3*1





if you had 234(base5) that would be 2*5^2 + 3*5 + 4*1 which would be 69 in base 10





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239 in base 12 is equal to what number in base 10?





The place values are powers of the base number.


For example:


564 is 5 hundreds, 6 tens, and 4 ones.


Notice that hundreds, tens, and ones are powers of 10 ... 10虏, 10鹿, and 10鈦?br>




In base 12,


239鈧佲倐 is 2 12-squareds, 3 twelves, and 9 ones ... 12虏, 12鹿, and 12鈦?br>

That's:


239鈧佲倐 = 2路12虏 + 3路12 + 9 = 333鈧佲個 鈥堚€?or simply 鈥堚€?333








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