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Colours, numbers and shapes

Numbers
Anyone who works with any branch of science or technology needs to be able to talk about figures.

Look at how we say these in English

28% - twenty-eight per cent
10.3 - Ten point three
4/9 - four ninths
4(small 2) - four squared
8(small 4) - eight to the power of four
10mX12m - ten metres by twelve metres
1 2/3 - one and two thirds
9/13 - nine thirteenths or nine over thirteen
7(small 3) - seven cubed
32oc or F - thirty-two degrees centigrade/celsius or fahrenheit
1,623,457 - One million,six hundred and twenty-three thousand,four hundred and fifty-seven

Here are the basics of arithmetic
+ addition
- subtraction
x multiplication
division

6 x 7 = 42 six times seven equals forty two OR six times seven is forty two OR six sevens are forty two OR six multiplied by seven equals forty two

Have a look at some of these sentences
2% of the British population owned 90% of the countries wealth in 1992
Here you would say '' Two per cent of the British population owned ninety per cent of the countries wealth in nineteen ninety two.''

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