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American Numbers and Prices

This page show you express some phrases using numbers and American prices.Native speaker use it a lot in daily life.

Remember that in English, we divide prices at the decimal point.

For example:

$5.57

five dollars (and) fifty-seven cents

five / fifty seven

(long way)

(short way)


(Time is also divided in a similar way: 14:56 is said "fourteen / fity-six")


Americans often say large numbers in "phrases" of two digits.

For example:

159

6261

one hundred fivty-nine
one / fivty nine
Six thousand two hundred six-one
sixty-two / sixty-one

(long way)
(short way)


Some people also use two-digit phrasing with telephone numbers:

321-6582

three-two-one // sixty-five / eighty-two


Practice the following prices (both long and short ways) with a partner:

    That will be____(price)______
    That comes to ____(price)____

$59.65
$28.75
$37.70

$1.79*
$15.28
$66.88

$29.00**
$98.14
$56.55

$425.78
$438.12
$199.49

$231.49
$589.25
$690.25

$3,657.88
$5,856.12
$6,989.55

*Also : a dollar seventy-nine

**Also : twenty-nine (dollars) even

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