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Large Numbers 9

Let’s Attempt

Example : Write the following in words: (a) 348405 (b) 755012368
Solution: (a) 3,48,405 Three lakh forty eight thousand four hundred five
(b) 75,50,12,368 Seventy five crore fifty lakh twelve thousand three hundred
sixty eight

Writing Large Numbers
If you want to write a large number. Then you have to separate the periods by using commas
( , ) as it makes easy to read the number too.
Let’s learn this through examples given ahead.

Let’s Attempt

Example 1: Write the numeral for ‘Six crore twenty-three lakh three thousand five hundred
twenty-two’.

Solution: Periods Crores Lakhs Thousands Ones
Places TC C TL L TTh Th H T O
6 2 3 0 3 5 2 2

We write this by puting commas after three digits from right and then after every
two digits.
The numeral is 6,23,03,522.

Example 2: Write the numeral for each of the following number names.
(a) Nine crore sixty-eight lakh twenty-seven thousand thirty-nine.
(b) Fifty-four crore ninety-nine lakh nine thousand six hundred seventy-five.

Solution: Periods Crores Lakhs Thousands Ones

Places TC C TL L TTh Th H T O
(a) 9 6 8 2 7 0 3 9 (a) 9,68,27,039
(b) 5 4 9 9 0 9 6 7 5 (b) 54,99,09,675

Exercise 1.1

1. Write the numerals for each of the following number names.
(a) Seventy-two lakh thirty-seven thousand four hundred seventy-nine.

(b) Thirty-seven lakh twenty-eight thousand two hundred seventy-two.
(c) Five crore thirty-nine lakh twenty-seven thousand two hundred seventeen.

2. Write the number names of the following numerals.
(a) 72,38,618 (b) 67,81,285 (c) 38,52,906
(d) 2,06,00,612 (e) 2,74,38,016 (f) 43,11,64,006