What is the largest number that can be written using a single Roman numeral symbol?
100
500
1,000
10,000
Fact: In the Roman numeral system, each letter represents a specific numerical value: I (1), V (5), X (10), L (50), C (100), D (500), and M (1,000). Of these, M is the highest single-value symbol, representing one thousand. To express even larger numbers, the ancient Romans combined multiple symbols—such as MM for 2,000 or MCMXCIX for 1,999—but no single character exceeds M in value. The system, elegant yet limited, includes no separate numeral for zero or for values above 3,999 without using special overline notation.
Correct Answer: 1,000