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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.3 - Fast men for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen and circle the numbers you hear.
  2. -
  3. In which numbers, and where, do you need to say (a) point and (b) and?

Answer

a)

  • 8,880
  • 3,235,899
  • 614\frac{1}{4}
  • 934\frac{3}{4}
  • 7512\frac{1}{2}
  • 0.15
  • 44.9

c)

  • We say point before a decimal, e.g. nought point fifteen (0.15) and forty-four point nine (44.9).
  • We say and after the hundreds, e.g. eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty (8,880); three million, two hundred and thirty-five thousand, eight hundred and ninety-nine (3,235,899).