Homework for students chapter $14$

Number Style: Word or Figure?

Name

Whether to use words or figures to express numbers is governed by convention. That is$,$ we follow customary techniques or rules. Here is a summary of frequently used number rules:

General rules. Use words for numbers one through ten. $($We have ten computers and three printers. She travels $30,000$ miles each year.$)$

Money. Use figures. $($Her ticket cost $$699\mathrm{.}55,$ and her luggage fee was $$20$ more.$)$

Beginning of sentence. Never start a sentence with a figure. $($Twenty$-$three people applied.$)$

Dates. Use figures when the day follows the month $($May $5).$ Do not add the ordinals th od $d.$ unless the day precedes the month $($fifth of May$)$ or stands alone $($on the fifth$).$

Clock time. Use figures when clock time is expressed with $a.m.$ or p$.$m$.($at $9$ a$.$m$.).$ Use either words or figures when clock time is expressed with o'clock $($at one o'clock or at $1$ o'clock$).$

Periods of time. Follow general rules $($a three$-$month leave for $90$ days$).$

Business terms. Use figures for interest rates, contracts, warranty periods $(2$ percent, $6-$month rental agreement$).$

Addresses. Use figures for all house numbers $(3450$ Main Street$)$ except the number One. Use words and ordinals for street names ten and under $($Fifth Avence, ${17}^h$ Street$).$

Revise the following sentences to correct number style.

After sending out twenty$-$five r$$sum$$s$,$ Amanda was delighted to have $3$ job interviews.

She prepared her r$$sum$$ in about $10$ hours and spent $35$ dollars on paper and copying.

Her first interview was scheduled for June ${18}^{th}$ at eleven a$.$m$.$ in the morning.

The address for $1$ interview was $4821$ Thirteenth Avenue.

During a $4-$week period, she talked with at least fifteen interviewers and managers.

$2$ or $3$ interviewers at each company questioned her for about twenty minutes.

A well$-$known company offered her thirty thousand dollars as a starting salary, but she was hoping for forty thousand.

One job candidate spent $3$ hundred dollars on a new wardrobe and traveled fifteen hundred miles to a promising interview.

That candidate received $2$ offers on the ${15}^{th}$ of the month, but he asked for $7$ days to decide.

He graduated with sixty thousand dollars in student loans at a five percent interest rate.

His best interview was at $1$ Rockefeller Plaza, which is just off of $5^{th}$ Avenue.

He had only three dollars in his pocket, but a taxi ride would cost at least $15$ dollars.

Eager candidates submit their r$$sum$$s to $1$ hundred or more companies.

He was asked to make a decision before one p$.$m$.$ on the twenty$-$third of December.

Dr$.$ Mary Ellen Guftey, author: BUSINESS ENGLISH,

ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION,

BUSINESS COMMUNICITION PROCESS AND PRODUCT.

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