AP NUMBERS Flashcards
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a really good one is worth a thousand dollars.
Spell out numbers in casual expressions
Do you spell out or use figures for measurements. And do you use ‘ for feet and “ for
Inches?
Use figures
Spell out inches, feet yards
Use hyphens for adjective forms
Time span. How do you say an event goes from two o’clock to 5 o’clock
2-5 p.m.
Ifa time range is entirely in the morning or evening, use a.m. or p.m. only once: “6:30-10 p.m.” If it goes from the morning into the evening (or vice versa), you need both: “10 a.m.-2 p.m.”
How do you say a boy is 7
7-year-old boy
Use a figure
How do you say an event happened three years past - figure or spell of out?
Spell it out. Don’t use number
three years ago
Figures or spell out numbers with percent
Use a figure
1 percent
Third grade or 3rd grade
Third grade
Size nine or size 9
Size 9
Six-by-eight-foot rug
6-by-8-foot rug
6-by-8-foot rug
Five ounces
Or 5 ounces
5 ounces
Is the age of an inanimate object spelled out or expressed with a figure
Use figures for people, animals and objects
3-year-old house
It happened
3 years ago.
Or
three years ago
three years ago
How do you express amounts with a casual reference and precision is not intended
Write it out
About a third of the class
A hundred or so
The 18 year old was arrested.
Or
The 18-year-old was arrested.
When an age is used as a noun, use hyphens.
Spell out or usé figures for
Stating the age of an inanimate object.
Use figures.
He was in his thirties.
Or
He was in his 30s.
Or
He was in his 30’s
30s
How do you write:
Two and a half laps
2 1/2 laps
How do you write five one-hundredths
0.05
Put a zero in front of the decimal point
In what order should dimensions be listed?
- Height
- Width
- Depth
Numbers with measurements
Always use numbers:
8 inches, 10 feet, 200 pounds
“He is 6 feet 2 inches tall.”**
Only use hyphens when using measurements in adjectival form. “The 5-foot-6-inch girl still wears high heels.”**
**note that commas are not used. EXCEPT WHEN ADDING LENGTH AND WIDTH TO THE EQUATION. “The boat is 30 feet long, 15 feet wide and 75 feet high.” BUT: “The 30-by-15-by-75-foot boat.”
Only use the apostrophe to indicate feet and quote marks to indicate inches in very technical contexts.
How do you write numbers less than 1?
Spell out amounts less than 1 in stories, using hyphens between the words. For example,
This recipe calls for two-thirds of a cup.
Are you sure? I thought I had read four-fifths.
I need a size twenty-seven-sixty-fourths drill bit.
Use figures for precise amounts larger than 1, converting to decimals whenever practical.
What about uncommon fractions less than one that most newspapers don’t have type fonts only for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, and 7/8 as one unit.
When using fractional characters, you should remember that most newspaper type fonts can set only 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, and 7/8 as one unit. For mixed numbers, use 1 1/2, 2 5/8, etc., with a full space between the whole number and the fraction.
Other fractions require a hyphen and individual figures, with a space between the whole number and the fraction. For example,
1 3-16
2 1-3
5 9-10
In tabular material (tables) use figures exclusively, converting to decimals if the amounts involve extensive use of fractions that cannot be expressed as a single character.
How do you write fractions in connection with percentages. Like two and a half percent?
Always use figures. 2.5 percent
Is it 7-minute video or a seven-minute video
Seven-minute video.
Spell out one through nine.
Headline:
Is it 3 or three
3
Cardinal
Ordinal
Cardinal:
For a general rule, spell out zero through nine, and use numerals for 10 and above. These are called cardinal numbers.
Ordinal:
Ordinal numbers look like this: 1st, 2nd, 10th, 101st , etc.
Or they look like this: first, second, tenth, one hundred first, etc.
Number or figure with millions and billion
2 billion people
Or
Two billion people
2 billion
Millions, Billions, Trillions Dollars:
Use a figure-word combination.
1 million people, not one million
$2 billion, not two billion
Also note no hyphen linking numerals and the word million, billion, or trillion.
She walked five miles.
Or
She walked 5 miles.
She walked 5 miles.
ALWAYS USE FIGURES WITH DISTANCES
When do you use courtesy title?
Do not use courtesy titles such as Mr., Mrs., Miss or Ms. unless they are part of a direct quotation or are needed to differentiate between people who have the same last name.
The names of which eight states are never abbreviated?
Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah.
What is the rule for ages?
For ages, always use figures. If the age is used as an adjective or as a substitute for a noun, then it should be hyphenated. Don’t use apostrophes when describing an age range. Examples: A 21-year-old student. The student is 21 years old. The girl, 8, has a brother, 11. The contest is for 18-year-olds. He is in his 20s.
Purdue writing lab
Purdue
Use quotation marks around the titles of: 8
of books, songs, television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches and works of art. Examples: Author Porter Shreve read from his new book, “When the White House Was Ours.” They sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the game.
Do not use quotation marks around these four publications
Do not use quotations around the names of magazines, newspapers, the Bible or books that are catalogues of reference materials.
Examples: The Washington Post first reported the story. He reads the Bible every morning.
Five acres or 5 acres?
5 acres
Always use figures for acres even under 10
Is it north Idaho or North Idaho?
north Idaho
Always use lowercase for compass points
Is it “6 months after the crisis”
Or “six months after the crisis”
Six months after the crisis
Is it “Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.”
Or
“7 p.m. on Sept. 17”?
7 p.m. on Sept. 17
What is the rule for using hyphens when spelling large numbers over twenty?
For large numbers that must be spelled out, use a hyphen to connect a word ending in “-y” to another word: “twenty-two,” “fifty-eight.”
500 square feet of space
Or
500-square-feet of space
500 square feet
He is
five-feet, six-inches tall
Or
5-feet, 6-inches tall
Or
five feet, six inches tall
Or
5 feet 6 inches tall
5 feet 6 inches tall
The 5-foot, 6-inch man
Or
The 5-foot-6-inch man
Or
The five-foot-six-inch man
The 5-foot-6-inch man
The team chose a seven-footer
Or
The team chose a 7-footer.
The team chose a 7-footer
Is it a:
$2-billion project
$2 billion-project
$2 billion project
$2 billion project
Is it a
2-month delay
Or a
two-month delay
Or a
2 month delay
Or a
two month delay
two-month delay
What about using hyphens when writing numbers?
Use a hyphen when writing two-word numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine (inclusive) as words.
But don’t use a hyphen for hundreds, thousands, millions and billions.
For example:
two hundred and thirty-two (232) [note that in US English you might omit the ‘and’ between the hundreds and the tens and units]
two thousand two hundred and thirty-two or twenty-two
What are the five rules for dimensions and numbers?
- Always use figures
- Spell out “feet” and “inches”
- No hyphen is needed when stating a dimension
“The man is 6 feet tall.”
- But a hyphen is needed when a dimension is used in its adjectival form before a noun
“The 10-foot line.”
- No comma between feet and inches
“The man is 6 feet 2 inches tall.”
What does the rule “no need for commas” mean
No need for commas means there is no need for commas between feet inches.
“The boy is 5 feet 3 inches tall.”
Do you use commas when spelling out amounts for a check?
No
