Writing numbers as Roman numerals

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1
Write 1659 in Roman numerals.
2
Write 1054 in Roman numerals.
3
Write 504 in Roman numerals.
4
Write 841 in Roman numerals.
5
Write 534 in Roman numerals.
6
Write 968 in Roman numerals.
7
Write 1521 in Roman numerals.
8
Write 858 in Roman numerals.
9
Write 1943 in Roman numerals.
10
Write 100 in Roman numerals.
11
Write 1399 in Roman numerals.
12
Write 849 in Roman numerals.
13
Write 838 in Roman numerals.
14
Write 1322 in Roman numerals.
15
Write 39 in Roman numerals.
16
Write 793 in Roman numerals.
17
Write 1348 in Roman numerals.
18
Write 650 in Roman numerals.
19
Write 1941 in Roman numerals.
20
Write 596 in Roman numerals.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 8 to 1,973.
53% of them use a subtractive pair such as IV or XC.
48% of them add their letters straight through.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 222 different ones, 93% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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Next to this

Reading Roman numerals

Numbers 0–0; 54% use a subtractive pair such as IV or XC.

Estimating a sum by rounding first

Numbers 1–997; 51% round up to an estimate above the exact answer.

Putting whole numbers in order

Numbers 100,056–999,813; every one will ask for a whole list in order rather than a single value.

All of number sense

28 skills in this topic, 75 sets between them.

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