Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7772: Order of operations - Order of operation
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-05 02:30:37+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

8-1x3+(32/4)
The division sign between the 32 and the 4 did not show, also the hints show the answer as:
-8-1x3+8
-8-3+8
-5+8
-13

I guess the "-" sign before the 8 was considered a "dash" for listing the different steps, this is confusing though because it looks exactly like a negative sign

[order_of_operations.html?seed=184&problem=9](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/order_of_operations.html?seed=184&problem=9&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/order_of_operations.html?seed=184&problem=9&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%223%5C%22%22%2C42%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C10%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C22%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2213%5C%22%22%2C98%5D%5D)

["3","13"]

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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