Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #8312: Pre-algebra challenge - Mistake in Question
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-10 21:23:32+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, wrong-or-unclear

"An alien rocketship is traveling at a speed of 40 feet per second. At this speed, how many miles will it travel in 1 hour? Round to the nearest thousandth." Is a question that I just received. The answer is obviously 27.27 miles. However, this answer is not working.

[pre-algebra_challenge.html?seed=89&problem=english (units)](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/pre-algebra_challenge.html?seed=89&problem=english&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/pre-algebra_challenge.html?seed=89&problem=english&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C23%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C41%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C0%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2227.27%5C%22%22%2C0%5D%5D)

["27.27","27.27","27.27","27.27","27.27","27.27"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

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