Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9350: Percentage word problems 1 - Changing the rules
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-23 03:44:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, hard, xp

After hundreds of problems where you just enter numbers because you already had everything else, you suddenly force people to add in $ or %. This is EXCEPTIONALLY frustrating since you aded feet, cm, hectaleters, and so on. Now, I keep getting knocked down because I didn't add a little squiggle that everything on your system has prepped me not to need. Since I was doing these problems in 4th grade (I did college math in 4th grade, but had to stop there because I did not know what the symbols meant any more and nobody would explain them to me) it is VERY frustrating to not be able to continue on because your system tales away half the point buildup for doing EXACTLY what you trained me to do. Why not have a pulldown in all those old lessions where people need to pick between meters per second, kilomiters per hour, and so on, so they have to prove what they are giving an answer in? Then they would be ready for this.

[percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=14&problem=bank-percentages](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=14&problem=bank-percentages&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=14&problem=bank-percentages&debug&activity=%5B%5D)

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