[ARCHIVED] Error in Canvas' Formula Calculation for a Quiz

[mallouk]

Hi all

I just gave my first quiz in Canvas and I included a formula question where students were given 6 randomly-generated numbers and were asked to calculate the mean. I put the following formula into Canvas for the solution:

(a+b+c+d+e+f)/6 

Every single one of my students was marked incorrect on this question because Canvas did the math wrong. After the fact I tried using mean(a,b,c,d,e,f) and that gave the same incorrect answer. 

Any ideas what is going on??

[mallouk · Accepted solution]

I figured it out! Canvas thought the lowercase "e" variable was the exponential. I changed it to uppercase E and the math worked out.

[SonNguyen]

Thanks for posting the question and fix.  This saved me time and frustration of trying to figure out.