Chapter 4 - Decimals - 4.1 Reading and Writing Decimal Numbers - 4.1 Exercises - Page 274: 72

$$ 14,600,000,000$$

To write 14.6 billion as a number without a decimal place, we must identify which digit each number is. We see that the "1" is the 11th digit, the 4 is the 10th digit, and the 6 is the 9th digit. All other digits are zero. Thus, the number is: $$ 14,600,000,000$$