How do I express this figure in words? $232,482 (All $ amounts are completed transactions in millions)?

Question

$232,482

Notes:
All $ amounts are completed transactions in millions.
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I need to say what that figure is, but I'm not sure.... I don't want to get my billions and, maybe, trillions, mixed up.

Thanks.

Hmm I'm sort of believing some answers... but if it's 232 million..... how many million in a trillion?

Surely there is $100 million in a trillion?

I mean $100 billion in a trillion !!!!

Puzzling... you say: 232 billion, 482 million.

Surely that can also be stated as: 2 trillion, 32 billion, 482 milllion?

Wow.... I thought I was bad at math... but some answers here really seem impossibly bad.

Ahh pa.... that is much clearer. Thanks.

(I'll still cling to the thought it may be trillions though, but will use your way of saying it)

If you are right pa, that also makes think's answer correct too.

And Puzzling's answer too would be correct.

Answer 1

Two hundred thirty-two billion four hundred eighty-two million.

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If $232,482 is expressed in millions, then make it a number in millions.

$232,482 million = 232,482,000,000.

Work it backwards.

-2 million
-eighty-two million
-four hundred eighty-two million
-two thousand four hundred eighty-two million or 2 billion four hundred eighty-two million
-thirty-two billion four hundred eighty-two million
-two hundred thirty-two billion four hundred eighty-two million

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Seems like a lot of people are getting confused here. A lot of times numbers are expressed this way in accounting. Wal-Mart for example doesn't send out it's reports with numbers like $467,000,000,000, all over the pages. The number gets condensed down to something like $467,000* with a note that says *all numbers are expressed in millions. This means add 6 zeroes to each number. It's a "cleaner" and easier way to read reports and financial statements that deal with large numbers.

So in this current question, the number he is looking for IS NOT $232,482 or two hundred thousand etc . . . . . It is $232,482 million. So add the 6 zeroes to get $232,482,000,000 which is two hundred BILLION etc . . . . .

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Now to the asker - Why are you caught up with trillions? Trillion doesn't apply in this case.

100 is not 1,000. (note the comma)
So 100 billion is not 1 trillion. 1,000 billion is 1 trillion.

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10
100 - hundred
1,000 - thousand
10,000
100,000
1,000,000 - million
10,000,000
100,000,000
1,000,000,000 - billion
10,000,000,000
100,000,000,000 - (this is the length of the number you gave us)
1,000,000,000,000 - trillion

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You're last example suggests that (232) can be expressed as 2 thousand 32. It's not, it's 2 hundred 32.

Same thing, 2 hundred 32 billion IS NOT the same as 2 trillion 32 billion.

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1 trillion minus the number you gave us equals a number less than 1 trillion. If the number you gave us was greater than 1 trillion it would give us a negative number but it doesn't. Use a calculator.

1,000,000,000,000
- 232,482,000,000
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767,518,000,000

cut out the zeroes (6 of them) and do 1 million minus 232,482. You get 767,518. Then add the zeroes back on. 767,518,000,000.


I can keep going to continue showing everyone why the number is
232,482,000,000
which is a number in the hundred billions, but I think I have more than sufficiently explained why by now.

Answer 2

Let's start with this... what would it be if it were $482 (in millions)... it would be $482 million.

Now if it is $232,482 in millions, this would be $232,482,000,000 --> 232 billion, 482 million.

I'm not sure why anyone would think this is trillions...

And regarding your follow-up comments:
1 trillion = 1,000 billion
1 billion = 1,000 million
1 million = 1,000 thousand

(At least in the way we count numbers in the U.S.)

Again 232,482,000,000 is 232 billion 482 million.

(You'd need one more digit in the front to roll over to a trillion. So if they said it was 1,232,482 (in millions), this would be 1,232,482,000,000 --> 1 trillion, 232 billion, 482 million).

There's a reason we put a comma between each group of 3. That tells us when to switch to the next name.

Answer 3

If we assume it is millions, then there are actually 6 zero's listed, which puts the 482 in the millions category.
2 = two million
8 = eighty million
4 = four hundred million

Up from there would be the billions category which is the 232.
2 = two billion
3 = thirty billion
2 = two hundred billion

So the number would be:
two hundred thirty two billion, four hundred eighty two million dollars

Answer 4

It would technically read as .232 million dollars

OR, in financial reports you could call it 232 and state that all figures are in thousands.

BOY! I'd hate to be a business man and have some of these people above me making change for me.

Answer 5

232 billion, 482 million, and change

Answer 6

If the amount is to be expressed in millions it is:
Two hundred and thirty two thousand four hundred and eighty two million - which equals $232 billion.
..............1,000,000 = million
.......1,000,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000,000 = trillion.
...232,482,000,000 = your figure.

Answer 7

Two hundred thirty-two trillion, four hundred eighty-two billion.

Answer 8

As the number stands $232,482 it should be written:
two hundred and thirty two thousand four hundred and eighty two dollars

Answer 9

maybe: two hundred and thirty two thousand four hundred and eighty two dollars.

I don't get what you mean by millions.

Answer 10

two hundred thirty two thousand, four hundred eighty two millions