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Daniel Walsh
309 PointsGiven the height and width of a wall in inches, calculate the area in feet and assign it to a constant named areaInFeet.
The title is what they asked me todo, I am not sure what I am doing wrong probably doing it wrong. Any help would be appreciated!
// the height and width of a wall
let height = 120.0 // in inches
let width = 144.0 // in inches
let areaInFeet = Double(area) / 10.764
2 Answers
John Simoneau
9,326 PointsHey Daniel, you're so close! I did the same thing you're doing... the 10.764 is to convert to meters (that was in the example they gave). Here for the task, we just need to calculate the area... regular width * height. Hope this helps!
Daniel Walsh
309 PointsThat did it! I had to divide it by 12 on top of that so it ended up looking like this "let areaInFeet = height\12 * width\12".