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14. I have my eye on a computer at Computer Wonderland, but it costs (twelve hundred fifty-nine
dollars, $1259), so I probably can’t afford it.
15. Jason’s favorite uncle joined the navy on December (third, 3), 1971. 
16. Alexis scored in the (ninety-ninth, 99th) percentile nationwide on the math test, meaning she 
did better than almost every student in the country!
17. (5, Five) of the 126 teams in the district had undefeated records going into the last game of the 
season.
18. Many historians believe that the (sixteenth, 16th) century produced the greatest literature in
European history.
19. There are more than (12, twelve) million Methodists in the United States, making it one of the
largest denominations.
20. A pack of gum costs (27 cents, twenty-seven cents) with tax.
21. ($1250, One thousand, two hundred-fifty dollars) was raised in the scrap paper drive last year.
22. Melanie had (three, 3) hits, including a home run and a double, in the softball game against
Ryder High.
23. The Latin Club banquet is scheduled to start at (six o’clock, 6:00) 
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24. The recent earthquake in Mexico measured (6.4, six point four) on the Richter scale.
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Unit 12 
Review
 Exercise 1
Place a check beside each sentence that uses punctuation, abbreviations, and
numbers correctly.
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I had my silhouette cut at the state fair (Did you know it was named after a French
government official of the eighteenth century?).