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C 17. A slice of bread has only forty-two calories.
C 18. There must be at least eighty-five cows in the field.
C 19. Can I buy a good radio for twenty-five dollars?- The bottle has forty-one vitamin pills in it.
C 21. The alphabet has twenty-six letters. - Alfonso counted sixty-eight jelly beans in the basket.
- The temperature is thirty-four degrees.
- There are one hundred and forty-two steps between my house and yours.
- The pie in the nursery rhyme had twenty-four blackbirds in it.
- Her birthday is the thirty-first of March.
- Four score and seven is the same as eighty-seven.
- Not too many years ago there were only forty-eight states.
- The cheese sandwich costs eighty-five cents.
- Are there enough books for twenty-eight students?
Writing Link Write three or four sentences of a plot for a book that stretches over
several generations. Give the character’s relationships and ages.