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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Super Conditional Challenge

Posted by Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

fixing the script

im still stuck on this challenge im not getting the question ?

script.js 
var money = 9;
var today =  'Friday';

if ( money >= 100 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater")   
} else if ( money >= 50 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie and dinner")    
} else if ( money > 10 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie");   
} else if ( today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");   
} else {
  alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points
Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points

i think you should change the OR ( || ) operators with AND ( && ) operator, like this

var money = 9;
var today =  'Friday';

if ( money >= 100 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater")   
} else if ( money >= 50 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie and dinner")    
} else if ( money > 10 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie");   
} else if ( today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");   
} else {
  alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");
}

with OR (||) operator , if only one of the conditions is true the code will be executed, but with AND (&&) operator both conditions must be true , in this case , the money is 9 ( which is below the requirement ) and the day is Friday ( which meets the requirement ) . so the first block will be executed and its wrong according to what the challenge is asking .

just changing the way the if statement looks at the conditions by changing the operators from OR to AND should solve this problem .

happy coding ;)