Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7208: Percentage word problems 1 - International currency support
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-11-28 21:13:29+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, other, win7

Hello,
In the exercise Percentage Word Problems 1, several problems ask for a currency answer, such as $538.32. I have a UK student who habitually answers with the UK pound symbol, though, thus losing perfectly good streaks just because of her nationality. I'm not saying the problem should accept pounds in the answer if dollars were in the question, but if the student is from the UK, the question should be stated in terms of pounds.

[percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=142&problem=yearly-percentages](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=142&problem=yearly-percentages&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=142&problem=yearly-percentages&debug&activity=%5B%5D)

[]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

MathJax is loaded, ready, queue length: 0