adding value of years and days to my age

Question

This is the question...
Great! Now we need to multiply the number years by the number of days in a year. We'll ignore leap years, so just multiply years by 365 and assign it to the variable days.
However I keep getting the...
 Bummer! Your days variable has the wrong value. Be sure to assign it to the product of years and 365.
```age.py
years = 27
years *= 365
days = 365
```

Charlie Gallentine · Answer

The first line looks good:
python
years = 27

However, it gets a bit off in the second line. When you write:
python
years *= 365

You are multiplying your age in years by 365, however, you are saving that value back in the years variable rather than passing it to a new variable called "days":
The next line,
python
days = 365

is initializing a new variable named "days" and storing the value of 365 in it. In actuality, "days" should contain the number of years multiplied by 365:
python
days = years * 365

In total what should be the code up through the 2nd part of the challenge:
python
years = 27
days = years * 365

The last part of the question will ask for a variable "weeks" which will be "days" divided by 7. In that case, make sure to initialize the new variable "weeks" to equal "days" divided by 7.
Hope that helps!

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adding value of years and days to my age

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Charlie Gallentine

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