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When the hint
did not land.
Khan Academy is a good place to practise, and its hints are usually enough. Sometimes they are not, and reading the same hint a third time does not help. A second explanation in different words, without leaving the exercise, usually does.
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How it works
Try it yourself first
Then use the built-in hint. Only then bring in a second explanation.
Select or snap the step
Highlight the hint line you did not follow, or snap the rendered expression.
Ask for another angle
A different explanation of the same idea is the point, not a shortcut past it.
What it handles
Hints that do not land
The same step explained differently, which is often all that was missing.
Rendered math
Exercise math is rendered, so snapping reads it exactly as displayed.
Video transcripts
Summarize a video into the three steps it actually taught.
Prerequisite gaps
Ask what you needed to know before this exercise, when the step assumes something you missed.
Similar practice
Ask for another problem of the same shape and try it before checking.
Self-paced learning
No grades involved, so this is the cleanest use case of them all.
A real one, worked out
This is the shape of every answer: the result first, then the reasoning that got there.
Question
The hint says to multiply both sides by the reciprocal. Why does that isolate x?
Answer
Because a number times its reciprocal is 1, and 1 times x is just x.
Steps
- 1The equation has x multiplied by a fraction, say (2/3)x = 8.
- 2The reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2, because (2/3)(3/2) = 1.
- 3Multiply both sides by 3/2 to keep the equation balanced.
- 4On the left: (3/2)(2/3)x = 1x = x, which is exactly the isolation you wanted.
- 5On the right: (3/2)(8) = 12, so x = 12.
Multiplying by the reciprocal and dividing by the fraction are the same operation. Use whichever one you can do without thinking.
Attempt, hint, then me. In that order it actually works.
What it will not do
- It will not do the exercise for you. Practice is the entire product on Khan Academy.
- It will not integrate with your Khan Academy account or your progress.
- It will not be used on anything your school grades through the platform.
- It will not replace working through the mastery ladder.
Solvecoon is a study aid, not an answer machine. Exams, graded quizzes, and proctored tests are off limits — see the acceptable use policy.
Questions people ask
- Is this not just cheating on practice?
- It can be, if you use it to skip the attempt. Used after your own try and after the built-in hint, a second explanation is how people get unstuck rather than giving up.
- Does it connect to my Khan Academy account?
- No. It reads the region of the screen you point at and nothing else.
- Can it explain a video?
- Snap a paused frame or select the transcript, and it will summarize what the segment taught.
- Does it work on other practice sites?
- Yes. It works on whatever your browser renders, so any practice platform behaves the same.
Stuck on something?
Select it or snap it — Solvecoon understands it.
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