How to Read a Large Number? | Place Value Chart

To read a
large number easily, we split the number into groups. We separate the groups by
using comma or a space between them. The grouping of places is done from the
right. The first group is ones group it has 3 places from the right. The second
and the third group is grouped under thousands. The second and third groups
have the next two places each. 

The sixth place from the right is called lakhs place.

Now, let us
read the number 145124. We place comma after 3-digit from the right and then
after 2 digits. The number is written as 1,45,124. In the place value chart it
is written as shown below.

1. Read the numbers written in the place-value chart below. Write them in words:

(i) Sixty-seven thousand forty-six

(ii) Four lakh eighty thousand seven

(iii) Three lakh forty five thousand eighty

(iv) Three lakh ninety-three thousand two hundred four

(v) Seven lakh one thousand eight hundred ninety four

(vi) Two lakh thirteen thousand six hundred twenty-eight

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