Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10537: Estimation with decimals - questions wording
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-06 15:07:47+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: comnetorgovedu@gmail.com

the "note that if you sum all the amounts and then round, you'll get X" could be somewhat confusing since the number shown is not in fact rounded. more importantly, some quoted number could be rounded to reach the desired result, leading to a false sense of understanding of what is being asked. replace the "note" with something to remind the of the order of the operations. ie: round then add

[estimation_with_decimals.html?seed=115&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/estimation_with_decimals.html?seed=115&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/estimation_with_decimals.html?seed=115&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%2213%5C%22%5D%22%2C115%5D%5D)

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.218 Safari/535.1

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