The Spanish term 'Cinquenta y seis' corresponds to which English number?

• A. 46
• B. 56
• C. 26
• D. 66

Answer: (B)

Numbers in Romance languages form compounds by combining the tens word with the units word. Here, cinquenta means fifty and seis means six, giving fifty-six. The linking word in Portuguese is usually e, but the meaning remains fifty-six. So the English number is fifty-six. The other options would map to forty-six, twenty-six, or sixty-six, which don’t fit this tens-and-units construction.