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

Posted by Sandeep Hasrajani
Sandeep Hasrajani
2,278 Points

Struggling with Ruby question about returning a sentence with string interpolation for remainder of divided numbers

The question that asks about returning the remainder of two numbers in sentence keeps failing even though I am very certain I am doing things right (see my attached code). What do I do?

method.rb 
def mod(a, b)
  #write your code here
  c = a % b
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}"
end

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Your code is indeed completely fine. The issue is that these challenges tend to be very picky about strings, they often have to match the example text provided to the letter. The "problem" with your code is that you are missing a period at the end of your string. If you add it then you will be able to pass the challenge.

Sandeep Hasrajani
Sandeep Hasrajani
2,278 Points

OH THANK YOU! I was trying to understand what I was doing wrong for so long! Thanks so much!