Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #14157: Percentage word problems 1 - Hints need some work
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-19 01:21:43+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, other, win7

Reporter: christilin@msn.com

Add something to hints to explain that the x + px (where p is the percentage as a decimal) is because the question states that the person has p percent more than previously.

(common question, including a question and explanation in HipChat today)

[percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=0&problem=yearly-percentages](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=0&problem=yearly-percentages&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=0&problem=yearly-percentages&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22223.87%5C%22%22%2C40%5D%5D)

["223.87"]

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

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