Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #11482: Writing expressions 1 - Writing Expressions 1
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-18 00:39:25+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, win7, wrong-or-unclear

The question states Take the quantity −5 times x, and then add −2.
However the correct answer to this problem is -5x + 2. The explanation to the problem is fine with the correct answer (-5x - 2). Can you fix this?

[writing_expressions_1.html?seed=135&problem=1](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/writing_expressions_1.html?seed=135&problem=1&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/writing_expressions_1.html?seed=135&problem=1&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%3Ccode%20style%3D%5C%5C%5C%22display%3A%20none%3B%5C%5C%5C%22%3E-5x%2B2%3C%2Fcode%3E%5C%22%22%2C6%5D%5D)

["-5x+2"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1

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