How many places are in fifty million without writing the number in standard form

First, we will consider the fifty. Fifty has one zero.
second. we will consider the million. A million has six zeroes.

Combining the fifty and the million, we can see that we have 7 zeroes total (one from the 50 and six from the 1000000).

Therefore, fifty million can be written as 5 x 10^7 without having to write the number in standard form first.