Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #13959: Counting 1 - very confusing question hint and answer.
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-16 12:01:14+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: johnthiret@hotmail.com

First issue: what is a baguette, the question assumes the person knows what a baguette is or what shape it is. The answer says 7 cuts to make 8 slices. If a baguette is round like a pizza 7 cuts will make 14 slices.To get 8 slices you actually need 4 cuts once again assuming that a baguette is round like a pizza.
(I only use the pizza as an example because I worked in pizza for 14 years and I always made 8 even slices with 4 cuts)

[counting_1.html?seed=146&problem=slices](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/counting_1.html?seed=146&problem=slices&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/counting_1.html?seed=146&problem=slices&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C11%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%226%5C%22%5D%22%2C51%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%228%5C%22%5D%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%222%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%223%5C%22%5D%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%2216%5C%22%5D%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%222%5C%22%5D%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%226%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%225%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%2247%5C%22%5D%22%2C41%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C7%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C0%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%224%5C%22%5D%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B%5C%227%5C%22%5D%22%2C33%5D%5D)

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.46 Safari/535.11

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