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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Operators Binary Operators

Posted by Marco Garduño
Marco Garduño
1,549 Points

help

help please

area.swift 
// the height and width of a wall
let height = 120.0 // in inches
let width = 144.0 // in inches
let areaInFeet = "height" / 12

1 Answer

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points 
// the height and width of a wall
let height = 120.0 // in inches
let width = 144.0 // in inches
let areaInFeet = height / 12 * width/12

Dont put quotation marks around variable names...this way you make these names to some Strings. And you can not devide a String with an integer. height is not the same as "height". Also your calculation was not complete.