Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7938: Adding and subtracting decimals word problems - Used a $ and got it wrong
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-06 21:55:26+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, snowleo, wrong-or-unclear

I answered $14.41, and it was wrong. I deleted the $ and it was right. (The question asked how much he needed to pay.)

[adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=177&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=177&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=177&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%2414.41%5C%22%22%2C42%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2214.41%5C%22%22%2C129%5D%5D)

["$14.41","14.41"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1

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