Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #5322: Comparing absolute values - Comparing Absolute values - wrong answers
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-11-01 08:46:20+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7

Reporter: vertigo.n@hotmail.com

This exercise is giving conflicting answers. It describes in the hint "The 'absolute value' can be viewed as the distance from 0."
The question here is |5| __ -6
And the only answer it chooses as correct is that 5 is greater than -6. Considering -6 is just 6, it is blatantly obvious that 6 is a greater value than 5, and therefore both the hint and the 'Check answer' is giving the wrong result. I've had this happen several times now as well.

[comparing_absolute_values.html?seed=186&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/comparing_absolute_values.html?seed=186&problem=0&debug)

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