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The digit 2 stands in the hundreds column, so its place value is 2 × 100 = 200, while its face value is the digit itself, 2. The difference asked for is 200 − 2 = 198. The value 200 is the place value on its own and is the option most often chosen by candidates who stop one step early; 2 is the face value alone; and 202 comes from adding the two instead of subtracting. The distinction matters beyond the mark: a child who has not separated these two ideas cannot make sense of regrouping or of the decimal point later.