Expanded form of a 3-digit number

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Write 5,436 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
2
Write 1,237 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
3
Write 5,578 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
4
Write 9,294 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 5,907 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 1,546 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 4,382 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 3,215 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 8,876 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 9,715 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 3,579 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
12
Write 1,149 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 6,999 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 8,429 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 5,467 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 8,058 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 1,884 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 4,021 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 1,190 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.
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Write 9,840 as a sum of place values, largest first, separated by +.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 992.
72% of them have no zero in the way.
28% of them contain a zero digit.
A careful solution takes 4 written steps on average.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 238 different ones, 99% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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Place value in a 6-digit number

Numbers 1–999; 93% have no zero in the way.

Expanded form of a 4-digit number

Numbers 1–995; 65% have no zero in the way.

Rounding to the nearest 10

Numbers 1,109–9,955; 52% round down.

All of number sense

28 skills in this topic, 75 sets between them.

Printing it

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