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When do you use hyphen when writing numbers in words?
example: 70,682-->seventy thousand six hundred eighty two
when you write that in words how do you you know where to put the hyphen?
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- ?Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
You use a hyphen only when 2 numbers are combined to make a single number.
In your example, the only 2 numbers which are combined are 'eighty' and 'two', or '82'. Writing it out in full would be (note the commas and the 'and'):
Seventy thousand, six hundred and eighty-two.
Here's another number: 24,976,155
There are 3 'combined' numbers: 24, 76, and 55:
Twenty-four million, nine hundred and seventy-six thousand, one hundred and fifty-five.