Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #8127: Adding and subtracting decimals word problems - $13.77
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-08 16:02:47+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, other, win7

I was doing a problem that involved money, and when I put a dollar sign in front of it, the program counted the answer as wrong! The answer was ($)13.77.

[adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=195&problem=4](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=195&problem=4&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems.html?seed=195&problem=4&debug&activity=%5B%5D)

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