Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7761: Adding and subtracting decimals word problems - Dollar Sign
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-04 23:39:53+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: willashe@hotmail.com

This question deals with dollars but the answer is marked incorrect if given with a dollar sign. Same answer without the dollar sign is marked correct. The answer is an amount of money and shouldn't be marked incorrect if submitted as such. Thanks!

[adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=13&problem=3](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=13&problem=3&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=13&problem=3&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%243.01%5C%22%22%2C24%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%223.01%5C%22%22%2C19%5D%5D)

["$3.01","3.01"]

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

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