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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Arguments: Part 2

Victoria Moser
Victoria Moser
2,668 Points
Posted by Victoria Moser
Victoria Moser
2,668 Points

Define multiply method that takes 2 arguments

I did:

def multiply (a, b) end

No idea what's wrong keep getting that it's wrong. Please help! Thanks in advance!

method.rb 
def multiply (a, b)
end

2 Answers

Allison Hanna
Allison Hanna
36,222 Points
Allison Hanna
Allison Hanna
36,222 Points

Hi, Your setup is fine, now you just need to add the body of the function. Specifically, when the method is invoked, what should happen?

def multiply (a, b)
    a * b
end

And now if someone calls the function, for example multiply(2, 4) the output will be 8.

Victoria Moser
Victoria Moser
2,668 Points
Victoria Moser
Victoria Moser
2,668 Points

I did that too and I still get the following :

Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing. Get Help

Allison Hanna
Allison Hanna
36,222 Points
Allison Hanna
Allison Hanna
36,222 Points

I just went to look at the challenge. Task 1 won't pass if you've deleted the subtract function. You need to keep both in order to pass.

def subtract (a, b)
end

def multiply (a, b)
end