Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #14430: Discount tax and tip word problems - rounding error
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-22 19:11:50+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: thereverbking@gmail.com

before rounding the answer is $18.135 so rounding makes it $18.14 not $18.13

[discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=60&problem=simple-tax](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=60&problem=simple-tax&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=60&problem=simple-tax&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22%2418.14%5C%22%22%2C23%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C36%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C40%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C54%5D%5D)

["$18.14"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11

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