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Writing Numbers in Words

Writing Numbers in Words
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   high interest, readability grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   2.9

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    security, writing, account, especially, cash, bank, amount, such, between, thousand, number, rule, easily, comma, hundred, feature

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Writing Numbers in Words
By Patti Hutchison 		  
1     Take a good look at a bank check. Notice all the information on it. Notice there are words and numbers. There are even numbers written in words!
 
2     On the second line of a check, the number amount is written in words. Why do you have to do this? It's for security.
 
3     Think about it. Say you wrote a check to someone for $6.11. If you only write the numbers on the check, they can be easily changed. Someone could write a 1 in front of the 6. He or she could even put a 9 there. A person could cash the check for much more than the amount you wrote it for.
 
4     If there was room, they could add many numbers to the front. They could make it $1256.11! And guess where the money would come from to pay the check? That's right- your checking account!

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