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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Creating Reusable Code with Functions Create a max() Function

Colin Stell
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Colin Stell
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I'm not sure where to go to figure this problem out.

Having trouble figuring this out. I'm got my parameters and what seems to be a conditional statement that should return the correct number. I'm lost. I'm working to return largest sum of whatever is put into the parameters when I call the function.

script.js 
function max(num1,num2) {
  if (num1 > num2) {
      return num1;
  } else (num1 < num2) {
      return num2;
  } 
}
max(96,29);

1 Answer

Christian Mangeng
Christian Mangeng
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Christian Mangeng
Christian Mangeng
15,970 Points

Hi Colin,

two things here:

1) The else statement does not take any condition because it already covers all of the cases that are not covered by the if statement. So you should remove that condition part. "Else" works in this case because if the numbers are equal, it wouldn't matter which of the two gets returned (num2 is fine)

2) You do not need to call the function at the end

The rest looks fine