Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7722: Adding and subtracting decimals word problems - Adding and Subtracting Decimals Word Problems
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-04 15:01:14+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, snowleo, wrong-or-unclear

The correct answer to the question is $13.05. However, the program did not accept that as a correct answer. It accepted only 13.05, without the dollar sign, which is incorrect given that the question asks simply to add two dollar amounts.

[adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=172&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=172&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=172&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%2413.05%5C%22%22%2C33%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C87%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C90%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C91%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C94%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C95%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C95%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C96%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C99%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%2413.05%5C%22%22%2C102%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2213.05%5C%22%22%2C3%5D%5D)

["$13.05","$13.05","13.05"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.120 Safari/535.2

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