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Business EnglishLevel One

Chapter 14 Lab Assignment

Reinforcement Exercises - Numbers

B. Number Expressions. Assume that the following phrases appear within sentences (unless otherwise noted) in business correspondence. Write the preferred forms in the spaces provided. If the phrase is correct as shown, write C.

1. seventeen new status updates
2. on Sixth Street
3. charged $.15 per copy
4. received 9 text messages
5. on December nineteenth
6. located on 5^th Avenue
7. charges of $3.68, 79 cents, and $40.00
8. on the ninth of May
9. meeting at 8:00 a.m.
10. arrived at 10 p.m. in the evening
11. a total of fifty-seven orders
12. on October 31^st
13. moved to 12655 32^nd Street
14. costs $79 dollars
15. (Beginning of sentence) 27 interviewees
16. 1319 people visited
17. the address is 7 Hampton Square
18. the address is 1 Hampton Square
19. has eighty-one rooms
20. (International style) at 6 p.m.
21. (International style) on April 15, 2015
22. Located at 2742 8^th Street
23. at six thirty p.m.
24. call (800)123-4567
25. for one hundred dollars
26. costs exactly 90¢
27. at 18307 Eleventh Street
28. call 800/598-3459
29. all 50 states
30. bought 2 lattes

Level 2
B. Number Expression. For the following sentences, highlight or underline any numbers that are expressed inappropriately and write the correct forms in the spaces provided.

1. Of the 3022 paintings in the Louvre's permanent collection, one painting, the Mona Lisa, is the most popular.
2. No. 3 on the agenda will take about forty-five minutes to discuss.
3. Our board of directors is composed of 15 members, of whom three are accountants, four are marketing specialists, and eight are in the finance industry.
4. We plan to order five twelve-month data plans for our employees. 
5. After a period of sixteen years, ownership reverts to the state.
6. In 2006 Facebook had approximately 12,000,000 users; today it has over 1,000,000,000.
7. The following policy Nos. are listed for Lisa Orta: No. 1355801 and No. 1355802.
8. Model 8,400 costs $10,000 and can be leased for $275 a month.
9. More than 10,000,000 people have downloaded the Instagram app for their Android smartphones.
10. Of the 385 manuscript pages, ten pages require minor revisions and eight pages demand heavy revision.
11. John Bologni, forty-one, and Sarah Flores, thirty-three, were recognized for their philanthropic work in the community.
12. On page forty-four of Volume two, you will see that absenteeism costs American corporations $74,000,000,000 annually.
13. Warranties on all plasma HDTVs are limited to ninety days.
14. They can't believe that the amateur video they made in their backyard has received eight hundred thousand views on YouTube.
15. Only two of the 78 staff member took a sick day last month.
16. Rich Snyder became president of In-N-Out Burger when he was just 24 years old.
17. When the child was two years six months old, his parents established a trust fund for $1.6 million dollars.
18. Bill Bates' mansion on Lake Washington features a wall of twenty-four video screens, parking for twenty cars, and a reception hall for one hundred people.
19. Taking 7 years to construct, the 40,000-square-foot home reportedly cost more than fifty million dollars.
20. Ford Motor Company sold more than 17,000,000, Model Ts between 1908 and 1927, making it the best-selling cat in history