Exercise 16
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 526.
Fill in the blanks with the mathematical symbols for the following words
Exercise 15
Sums of Money
Notice the following points:
£54,765.45 $67.05 48p 90c
The pound (£) or dollar ($) signs go before the numbers.
A decimal point (full stop) separates pounds from pence and dollars from cents. There are two ways of writing pence and cents: 48p (£.48), 90c ($.90).
Note: £3m = three million pounds
$6.2m = six point two million dollars
= six million, two hundred thousand dollars
subtract/ take away/ minus ____ , add/ plus ____ , square root ____ , square root of thirty six ____ , multiply ____ , cube root of twenty-seven ____ , four squared ____ , zero ____, nought ____ , percent ____ , a one to six ratio ____ , equals/ is equal to ____, approximately equals ____ , six to the power three/ six to the third power ____ .
How do you say these figures:
27.65 £16.89 0.018 250,347 $2,587.60 $1,535,640 3/5 1/18
How do you say:
23 - 16 = 7 11 ´ 3 = 33 
36 = 6 18 ¸ 3 = 6 3 216 = 6
217 + 56 = 273
121/2 242/3 181/4 4/5 643/4 1/5
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