Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #14408: Discount tax and tip word problems - Incorrect price statement
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-22 15:50:58+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, other

Reporter: bbb.stocken@gmail.com

The stated price for the basket of apples is $5.00. In the normal world the prices are given with the tax included if not stated otherwise and then the correct answer is $5.

For the problem you want the students to solve you should state "Ashley buys a basket of apples on sale for $5.00, excluding taxes" or similar

[discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=162&problem=tax-total-cost](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=162&problem=tax-total-cost&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems.html?seed=162&problem=tax-total-cost&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%225%5C%22%22%2C23%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C77%5D%5D)

["5"]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0

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