Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10714: Rate problems 1 - Bad wording in rate problem
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-09 03:16:32+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, wrong-or-unclear

it says "he travelled 322 miles for 7 hours", but that would imply that he travelled at 322*7 mph.

It should say "he travelled 322 miles in 7 hours" or "he travelled 322 miles over 7 hours", showing the distance he travelled over time rather than per unit of time.

[rate_problems_1.html?seed=159&problem=3](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/rate_problems_1.html?seed=159&problem=3&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/rate_problems_1.html?seed=159&problem=3&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C50%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C62%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C77%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C84%5D%5D)

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2

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