Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9055: Arithmetic word problems - No Dollar Sign?
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-20 03:08:05+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: willashe@hotmail.com

Got hit with an incorrect answer on this one because I had a dollar sign in front. The answer is in dollars, almost seems like the dollar sign should be required but it at least should register as correct answer if the number is correct.
Thanks

[arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=51&problem=1](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=51&problem=1&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/arithmetic_word_problems.html?seed=51&problem=1&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%245%5C%22%22%2C33%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%225%5C%22%22%2C8%5D%5D)

["$5","5"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

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