Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #15531: Dividing fractions word problems - Do you count Jessica?
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-03-06 08:41:09+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: leroy100@xtra.co.nz

The question asks how many friends Jessica can share her candy bar with. It is not clear whether I should count Jessica's share or not. I would have said she can share it with 7 friends ie a total of 8 people. Obviously, Jessica is not one of Jessica's friends.

[dividing_fractions_word_problems.html?seed=142&problem=candy](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/dividing_fractions_word_problems.html?seed=142&problem=candy&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/dividing_fractions_word_problems.html?seed=142&problem=candy&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%227%5C%22%22%2C20%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C6%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C8%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C10%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C12%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C13%5D%5D)

["7"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

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