A shopkeeper in Pune stacks rice bags so that each higher shelf holds 10 times as many bags as the shelf below it. The bottom shelf holds 10^0 = 1 bag. How many bags does the 5th shelf from the bottom hold? (Bottom shelf is the 1st.)

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10^4. Shelf 1 = 10^0, shelf 2 = 10^1, shelf 3 = 10^2, shelf 4 = 10^3, shelf 5 = 10^4 = 10000 bags.

A shopkeeper in Pune stacks rice bags so that each higher shelf holds 10 times as many bags as the shelf below it.
The bottom shelf holds $1 0^{0} = 1$ bag. How many bags does the 5th shelf from the bottom hold? (Bottom shelf is the 1st.)

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A shopkeeper in Pune stacks rice bags so that each higher shelf holds 10 times as many bags as the shelf below it.
The bottom shelf holds $1 0^{0} = 1$ bag. How many bags does the 5th shelf from the bottom hold? (Bottom shelf is the 1st.)