Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #15331: Mean median and mode - Why is this a fraction?
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-03-04 01:11:08+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, hard, win7

Other arithmetic mean questions allow a decimal (in this case my answer was 3.6666667, which was correct), but only in this case a fraction is required. Why? Very frustrating.

[mean_median_and_mode.html?seed=6&problem=mean](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/mean_median_and_mode.html?seed=6&problem=mean&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/mean_median_and_mode.html?seed=6&problem=mean&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%223.6666667%5C%22%22%2C24%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%223.67%5C%22%22%2C26%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C5%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C6%5D%5D)

["3.6666667","3.67"]

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

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