Practice Makes Perfect

1066 is said as “ten sixty-six.” The years that follow 1999 are said another way:

2000 two thousand

2001 two thousand one, or twenty oh one

2002 two thousand two, or twenty oh two

2010 two thousand ten, or twenty ten

2022 two thousand twenty-two, or twenty twenty-two

When saying on what date an event occurred, the word onis optional:

The boy was born onMay first.

The boy was born May first.

Rewrite each equation in words.

1. 5 7  12

2. 11 6  5

3. 345 220  12 5

4. 22 10  220

5. 100 63  6,300

6. 10,000 500  200

7. 880 3  2,640

8. 88,000 55,000 33,000

9. 11.5 10  115

10. 93.3 3  31.1

exercise 24-1

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