Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9989: Percentage word problems 1 - Wording is ambiguous
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-01 20:05:28+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: brianpeiris@gmail.com

The question reads "112% more money", which would indicate that current value is 212% of the original value (100% + 112%). The question should read "12% more money".

[percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=92&problem=yearly-percentages](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=92&problem=yearly-percentages&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=92&problem=yearly-percentages&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22458.19%5C%22%22%2C596%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C377%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C379%5D%5D)

["458.19"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0

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