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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge Solution

Anastasios Ioannou
Anastasios Ioannou
3,616 Points
Posted by Anastasios Ioannou
Anastasios Ioannou
3,616 Points

My code doesn't give the right score of correct answers...

Hello,

I was trying to solve the challenge, so I have been making the 5 questions and provided a variable for the score of correct questions answered.

The code is pretty straight forward but for some reason it never gives me the correct answer of questions added. I have trying for quite a while to try and solve the problem but I can't. Even the solution the tutor gave in the video seems exactly the same only instead of "correct" I have named my variable "score"

Could you please help me with this?

Looking forward for your answer!

My code looks like this:

var score = 0;

var firstQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Greece?"); if ( firstQuestion.toUpperCase() === "ATHENS" ) { score +=1;
}

var secondQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Albania?"); if ( secondQuestion.toUpperCase() === "TIRANA" ) { score =+1;
}

var thirdQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Bulgaria?"); if ( thirdQuestion.toUpperCase() === "SOFIA" ) { score +=1;
}

var fourthQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Romania?"); if ( fourthQuestion.toUpperCase() === "BUCURESTI" ) { score +=1;
}

var fifthQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Serbia?"); if ( fifthQuestion.toUpperCase() === "BELGRADE" ) { score +=1;
}

document.write("<p>You got " + score + " answers correct.</p>")

1 Answer

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points
Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

I don't know if this is gonna solve all your code but I see that in your second "if" there's a little error:

if ( secondQuestion.toUpperCase() === "TIRANA" ) {
    score +=1;
}
  • This works for me:
var score = 0;

var firstQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Greece?"); 

if ( firstQuestion.toUpperCase() === "ATHENS" ) { 
    score +=1;
}

var secondQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Albania?"); 


if ( secondQuestion.toUpperCase() === "TIRANA" ) {
    score +=1;
}

var thirdQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Bulgaria?"); 

if ( thirdQuestion.toUpperCase() === "SOFIA" ) { 
    score +=1;
}

var fourthQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Romania?"); 

if ( fourthQuestion.toUpperCase() === "BUCURESTI" ) { 
    score +=1;
}

var fifthQuestion = prompt("Name the capital of Serbia?"); 

if ( fifthQuestion.toUpperCase() === "BELGRADE" ) { 
    score +=1;
}

document.write("<p>You got " + score + " answers correct.</p>")
Anastasios Ioannou
Anastasios Ioannou
3,616 Points
Anastasios Ioannou
Anastasios Ioannou
3,616 Points

yes....these typos... :)

Thank you very much for your answer!!