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SAT Writing

Category - Error Identification

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There is an error in the italicized portion of the passage below. Choose the option that best corrects this error.

Several deep sea cameras have revealed that the seas are filled with approximately seventeen thousand six hundred fifty species.
  1. 17 six hundred fifty species.
  2. 17,650 species.
  3. 17,650 species’.
  4. Seventeen thousand six hundred fifty species’.
Explanation
Answer: B - 17,650 species. Numbers less than one hundred should be written out, rather than placed in numeric form. Since this sentence references a quantity much greater than 100, it should not be written. Given that the species are not showing ownership, an apostrophe is not needed.
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