Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #12925: Multiplying fractions - Multiplying fractions reducing problem
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-02 19:57:00+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: mr.lerie@gmail.com

On some problems the answer does not accept or check if the fraction needs to be broken down. I was under the impression that if a fraction could be reduced, it SHOULD be reduced. I keep failing the "multiplying fractions" activities because it will not accept the answer for a broken down fraction. For example, this fraction: 64/82 can be broken down one more time into 32/41 but when I check the answer it gives me an incorrect response as it thinks the fraction cannot be broken down again by 2.

[multiplying_fractions.html?seed=17&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/multiplying_fractions.html?seed=17&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/multiplying_fractions.html?seed=17&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2232%2F41%5C%22%22%2C74%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C5%5D%5D)

["32/41"]

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

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