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Marco Garduño
1,549 Pointshelp
help please
// the height and width of a wall
let height = 120.0 // in inches
let width = 144.0 // in inches
let areaInFeet = "height" / 12
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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.