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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Super Conditional Challenge

Posted by André Lança
André Lança
3,137 Points

Something's Wrong with this script exercise

IT SAYS: Something's wrong with this script. The value in the variable money is only 9. But if you preview this script you'll see the "Time to go to the theater" message. Fix this script so that it correctly tests the money and today variables and prints out the proper alert message: "It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out"

CODE: var money = 9; var today = 'Friday'

if ( money >= 100 || today === 'Friday' ) { alert("Time to go to the theater");
} else if ( money >= 50 || today === 'Friday' ) { alert("Time for a movie and dinner");
} else if ( money > 10 || today === 'Friday' ) { alert("Time for a movie");
} else if ( today !== 'Friday' ) { alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");
} else { alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home."); }

thats the original. i've changed some lines to work as "It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out" and it didn't work

script.js 
var money = 9;
var today = 'Friday';

if ( money >= 100 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater");    
} else if ( money >= 50 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie and dinner");    
} else if ( money < 10 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie");   
} else if (  money = 9 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");   
} else {
  alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points
Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points

Hi Andre -

You first need to change all of the Or comparisons to and by deleting || and replacing with &&. Then for the final you need to check if it is Friday

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Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Hey Jeff!

For future reference, it's frowned upon in the Community to post code that can be copied and pasted and just work without explanation. As such, I've redacted the code in this answer. If you'd like to re-post your code, feel free to do so, but make sure it illustrates how to solve the problem without actually being copy/pastable to solve it. Also, be sure to include a good explanation about how and why it's the correct solution to the problem. Thanks for helping out in the Community!