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Numbers zero to ten: One, two, three, etc...
Dates and years: December 18, 1997. Avoid using ordinals when writing dates: Her birthday is on April 4th.
Decimals, percentages, and fractions: 235.485, 55%, 14 1/4
Scores: The Broncos won the final game by a score of 4 to 3.
Addresses: 5 Los Condes Avenue.
Political and military units (for numbers of one hundred or less): Seventh Precinct, Fourteenth Congressional District, Fifty-third Regiment, Third Battalion, 112d Artillery
Finances: Tickets cost $35.50 apiece. The city spent $1.1 million for snow removal last year. (Or use $1,100,000.) You can leave the comma out of figures in the thousands: They spent $7500 on that car before junking it. Also, leave the comma out of addresses and year-dates: In 1998, they moved to NE 12887 53rd Avenue.
Time: 9:15 a.m. If you use the word o'clock, however, for rounded off times, spell out the number in words: We left at seven o'clock. Use a.m. and p.m., not AM and PM.

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- Numbers greater than ten: Eleven, twelve, thirteen, et
- Approximate figures — fractional or otherwise — may be written out as words: one half the students, a quarter cup of sugar, a third of the - time, four times as often.
- To avoid confusion by running numbers together, combine words and numerals when one number follows another. Generally, write out the shorter number: My wife teaches 26 third-grade students.

1) My son is _________ (one, 1) year old.

2) I was born on December ____________ (twenty-seventh, 27).

3) I was born in ____________ (1973, nineteen-seventy-three).

4) The University of Chile won by a score of ______ (seven, 7) to _________ (five, 5).

5) There are __________ (27, twenty-seven) __________ (fifth-year, 5th year) law students in this building.

6) I live at __________ (nine, 9) Recoleta street.

7) Oprah Winfrey made ____________ (one point seven, $1.7) million dollars this week.

8) Wake me up at __________________ (seven-thirty, 7:30) tomorrow morning.

9) ______________ (one quarter, 1/4) of the people in Santiago can speak English.

10) I have to go in __________ (five, 5) minutes.