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What is the written form of the number 98? The grocery bill came to 98 dollars and thirty cents.

a. ninety eight
b. ninety-eight

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According to grammar rules and most style books, you would hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine. Therefore the correct answer is b, ninety-eight.
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