Writing Numbers: Exercise

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The errors in number usage are corrected here. Those that were correct in the exercise have a "C" to the left of the sentence.

Three hundred fifty-one	1.	351 people attended the performance.
135	2.	There were one hundred and thirty-five pieces in the puzzle.
8:30 A.M.	3.	Class started at eight-thirty A.M. in Room Twenty.
hundreds	4.	In the sixties there were sit-ins at 100's of colleges.
C	5.	Every afternoon at two o'clock the chimes rang.
12.5	6.	The stock deal, which involved $4.5 billion, paid a twelve and a half percent dividend.
18	7.	The Lafayette television station is Channel Eighteen.
C	8.	They needed eight ten-foot poles for the construction.
16	9.	The vote was 126 in favor of the action and only sixteen opposed.
C	10.	The assignment was to read chapter 6, pages 31-39.
50	11.	Only fifty percent of high school students go on to college.
ten	12.	We were assigned a report of about 10 pages in length.

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