![]() Yes, that’s a little awkward, and we’ll be discussing that fact next time, too. Of course, the quotation marks are not part of the answer and as we’ll see later (next time), it’s a good idea to add in a hyphen:ħ3.78007 = seventy-three and seventy-eight thousand seven hundred-thousandths Now you can do your other examples the same way. "seventy-three" and "seventy-eight thousand seven" hundred thousandths. This is the way to say everything after the decimal.ĥ) Now that we know how to say everything before the decimal and after the decimal, we just have to connect it with an " and": Seventy-eight thousand seven hundred thousandths In our number, it's the hundred thousandths place.Ĥ) Finally, you say the whole number after the decimal, followed by the name of this place: 3) The next step is to figure out what the name of the smallest place (the place farthest to the right) is. So far, we have the whole part, and the numerator of the fraction part. In our example, 73.78007 -> 78007 -> seventy-eight thousand seven. The first thing you have to do is figure out how to say the number as if the decimal point weren't there.Ĥ.9832 -> 9832 -> nine thousand eight hundred thirty-twoĠ.364 -> 364 -> three hundred sixty-four Let's try to do one of the examples you sent us:ġ) First, what's before the decimal point? You know what that is: it's seventy-three.Ģ) Now for after the decimal point. If you don’t see how we can do that, we’ll be seeing it later. ![]() What we’ve done here is to combine all the decimal places into one, lumping it as a single fraction, “thirty-three hundredths”. Can you figure our what 33/100 is in words? In words, 3/10 is "three tenths," so 0.3 is also called "three tenths," and the 3 is in the "tenths" place. Now, how do we fit those six places into a word form? Do we have to write, “4 and 3 tenths and 3 hundredths and 7 thousandths and …”? No, we make it a little easier: Remember that a decimal is just another way of writing a fraction. We saw this in the post about place value for decimals. I'll put a star in each place I'm talking about: The question you are asking us is a little bit more complicated, because it has decimals in it and so you also have to worry about the names of the places after the decimal point. We’ll be trusting that you know that last part the hard part is the decimal. Here we are going from (short) expanded form, “400 + 60 + 1”, to “mixed form”, “4 hundreds, 6 tens, and 1 one”, to English word form where 6 tens becomes “sixty”, 1 one becomes “one”, and the last two are combined to make “sixty-one”. We change this around a little bit so that it is in standard English, and we get "four hundred sixty-one". ![]() Using our above example, 461 in words is: Have you learned about place value in school yet? Place value is the key to this problem. For example, the number 461 has a 4 in the "hundreds" place, a 6 in the "tens" place, and a 1 in the "ones" place. The key to writing numbers in words is knowing the name of the place where each digit is. Write each number in words: 1) 73.78007 2) 2.900087 (3) 34.4939.ĭoctor Sonya answered, starting with place value: Dear Leah, We’ll start with this, from 1997: Writing Numbers in Words We’ll start with reading a number and writing its word form, and then do the reverse. We’ve been looking at the place value concept, and writing number in expanded form(s) but how about the word form of decimals? This can be confusing at several points.
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