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») Reading Sometimes the information must be extremely accurate When we deal with numbers, we abo use 2) Decimals, such as 6.43 and we read sik point fourshree, of 9.02 and we rea nine paint B (oh) two. In English we we afl Sop () and neta corina (for decimals When the numbers refer to monty, £15.30, we say fitcen pounds tiny 1) Pevcentages such as 25% and we read twentyslve percent, or 3%6 and we read three percent. Fractions, such as 3/8 we read a the sights or 4/9 we read asfourcinths But Took at these: 1/4 we read a5 one ‘quarer~ 1/2-we read as oneal 1/3 we read as one third. ‘As you can se, the top numbers read as ‘2 cacdinal number The bottom number i ‘ead as an ordinal rumbet Let's sean the text o 6 e eo oe “here are some worn the fet tat Reve atin ots. Can yu find then? (ae we ine «The information about yer is also read in a special way. We sy: 1675 ~ sixteen seventy ve, oF 1984 ~ nineteen eghy-fout But in the new mieriuen we read the Yeor 45 2009 two thousand, or 2003 two theasand and thre. roa from the year 2010 onwards, we wl say O90 thousand and ten oe maybe twenty tery wich seems trore probable # we compare he other Gates eg. the year 1016 e) Finally, hathematica gumbo are read Hike this 44 +5 four PLUS five, 7 « 3 seven, TIMES thvee, 8-2 eight MINUS two, 10 :5 ten QMDED BY five Squares ke 5* or 8 reread fve squared or ght squared. Ces ke 7? or 9 ae read seven cubed oF pine cubed ‘Ard the symbol forthe square rot is read, for instance, Fa the square root of four a

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