How will you represent the term 140 with the help of roman numbers?

Thanks for asking question on GMAT section, Your question was – How will you represent the term 140 with the help of roman numbers? Your correct answer is- d Now read this explanation for more clarifications: According to the rules used for writing the roman numbers, Letter I represents a value of 1 Letter V represents a value of 5 Letter X represents a value of 10 Letter L represents a value of 50 Letter C represents a value of 100 Letter D represents a value of 500 Letter M represents a value of 1000 ∴ 140 can be written as 100 + 40 For 100 we can use the symbol C. But, 40 cannot be written as XXXX, because we cannot the same symbol more than 3 times consecutively. ∴ We can write 40 as XL Hence, we can write 140 as CXL in terms of roman numbers. Hence, the correct answer is option d.