Multiple choice softskills communication

Each of these sentences mentions a number. Identify the sentence that follows the correct convention for numbers.

  1. It’s been 6 days since we have been working on this single document.

  2. There are twenty five pages in this document.

  3. 20 person hours were spent on the last phase of the project.

  4. We need at least five additional resources to complete this.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option D follows convention: small whole numbers (under 10) should be written out as words ('five'). Option A is incorrect - '6' should be 'six'. Option B should be 'twenty-five' (hyphenated). Option C is incorrect - '20' should be 'twenty'. Convention: write out numbers 0-9; use numerals for 10 and above unless starting a sentence.

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