Name ____________________________ Date _______________ # ________

Read each mystery carefully. Use what you know about place value to help you figure out each number.

I am an odd number. I have 5 hundreds and I am an even number. I have 6

my tens place has a value of 20. My ones thousands. There is a 4 in my
place is less than 3. What number am I? tens place. My hundreds place
is the number you get when
you add 3+2. And my ones place is greater than
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7. What number am I ?
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I am an odd number. I have 4 I am an even number. You can get my hundreds

thousands and 8 hundreds. My
tens place is empty. My ones
place is the number that comes
between 6 and 8.
What number am I? _______________
place my adding 3+5. My tens place has a value
of 50. And the number in
my ones place is known as
uno in spanish.
What number am I?
_____________

I am an even number. I have I am an odd number. When you subtract 9-8

a value of 5,000. My hun-
dreds place is the number
that comes between 5 and 7.
I have a 3 in my tens place.
My ones place is less than three.
What number am I? _______________
you get my hundreds place. I have a value of 30
in my tens place. My ones place
is less than 7 but greater than 3.
What number am I?
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