The Place value of 5 in 157,278 is:

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Million

Fifty thousand

Hundred million

Ten thousand

answer is B.

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Concept- To solve this question, we will need to know about the International Number System, whose order of place value goes as – Ones, Tens, Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand, Hundred Thousand, Million, Ten Million, Hundred Million, Billion, Ten Billion, Hundred Billion, Trillion, Ten trillion, Hundred trillion and so on, from left to right. Here, we will match our given number’s digits to the order mentioned just above to obtain their place values.
Given, the number is 157,278 and we have to determine the place value of the digit 5.
5 is the 5th digit from the left and as per the order mentioned above in the concept, the 5th term is “Ten Thousand”.
Also,

Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

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