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

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

a. CXXXX
b. LCD
c. DCL
d. CXL
e. None of the above

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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.

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