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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Returns: Part 2

Dharma Teja
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Dharma Teja
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Posted by Dharma Teja
Dharma Teja
Courses Plus Student 5,206 Points

In the previous challenge, we wrote a method that returned the remainder of two arguments when divided. That's cool, but

can anyone help this question

method.rb 
def mod(a, b)
  #write your code here
  puts "Reminder of #{a} and #{b} is #{c} " 
  return c

end

mod()

2 Answers

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

You're close, but this challenge wants you to return the string from the mod method, not print it out. And there is no c variable; the challenge says:

where... c is the value of a % b

So you should do this:

def mod(a, b)
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a % b}."
end

Or even just this:

def mod(a, b)
  "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a % b}."
end
Curtis Hodak
Curtis Hodak
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Curtis Hodak
Curtis Hodak
13,293 Points

I don't remember if that one needed to return c or not at the end of the method. Really all you need to do here is create a variable c, and pass in two numbers when calling your method.

where inputting your code a solution could be c = a % b

then call mod with 2 numbers mod(5,2)

output should be Reminder of 5 and 2 is 1