EXERCISE 38-1 Using Numbers
Correct any inappropriate uses of numbers in the following sentences. Some sentences may be correct. Example:
A program to help save the sea otter transferred more than eighty animals to a new colony over the course of 2 years; however, all but 34 otters swam back home again.
12 percent or so of the estimated fifteen billion plastic water bottles purchased annually in the United States are recycled.
In act two, scene nine, of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Portia’s 2nd suitor fails to guess which of 3 caskets contains her portrait.