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

peterson st gourdain
peterson st gourdain
931 Points
Posted by peterson st gourdain
peterson st gourdain
931 Points

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I NEED A LITTLE CLARITY

script.js 
function max (A17, P19) {
  if (A17 >= P19) {
      return A17; 
  } else {
    return P19;
  }
}
max(A17, P19)
alert( Math.random() );

1 Answer

Ian Billings
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Ian Billings
Courses Plus Student 7,494 Points
Ian Billings
Ian Billings
Courses Plus Student 7,494 Points

Hi,

Your function looks good. For the second part of the challenge you need to call the function max with 2 numbers, and in your code you have used the variables names again which don't mean anything to the computer. E.g. max(4, 9) (Which should return 9). You then need to store that result into a variable, so I would do something like

var result = max(4, 9);

Then finally you need to alert the result, so I would do:

alert(result);

Hope that helps.