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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 7
    10 years ago
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    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.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Writing Numbers Hyphen

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