Face value means the value of the digit in isolation.
Place value means the value represented by the positionthat this digit sits within the number.
If you take the number 10 for example:
The first digit here "1" has a face value of 1. We just look at the digit in isolation and its face value is simply the value of the digit.
However its place value is tens. That is because it sits in the place of the tens column of a number (second digit to the left of where the decimal point would go)
For the number 200, the "2" has a face value of 2 and a place value of hundreds as it sits in the hundreds column of a number.
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place value is the place of the number in reference to the decimal point, either to the right or left by how many places. face value refers to the number diregarding the positive or negative
actual value is 9000 place value is 1000 so, the difference is 8000 Soumen Sarkar Mathematics Teacher West Bengal, India
Place value is were the number is located. Example: 210 the 1 is in the tens spot. The value of the digit is how large the number is. Example: 50 is larger than 5 There you go.
3508 has the face value of 5 is as 5 and the place value of 5 is as 500. So the difference between both numbers is: 500 - 5 = 495. By words that would be: five hundred minus five equals four hundred ninety-five.