Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7681: Arithmetic word problems - Answer formatting / question
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-03 21:43:42+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, vista, wrong-or-unclear

The question is:
How much did each nail cost?

but the answer expects an integer (4), not a dollar amount ($4). Either the answer type should be changed, or the question should ask:
How many dollars did each nail cost?

[arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=108&problem=1](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=108&problem=1&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=108&problem=1&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%244%5C%22%22%2C31%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%224%5C%22%22%2C3%5D%5D)

["$4","4"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

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