Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #13847: Negative number word problems - Answer is incorrect
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-15 00:03:38+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, wrong-or-unclear, xp

Question is asking "Where was the fish relative to sea level?"

Answer is about Daniel's position relative to sea level, not the fish's position.

"Daniel was initially 28 meters below sea level, which can be written as a negative number, −28 meters."

[negative_number_word_problems.html?seed=32&problem=scuba_result](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/negative_number_word_problems.html?seed=32&problem=scuba_result&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/negative_number_word_problems.html?seed=32&problem=scuba_result&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%2250%5C%22%5D%22%2C41%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C36%5D%5D)

[["50"]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.46 Safari/535.11

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