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mohamed hassan
mohamed hassan
2,079 Points

stuck into creating some basic codes

i am trying to put that The product of 4 times 9 is 36 however it is not going through

// Enter your code below
let firstValue = 4
let secondValue = 9
let product = firstValue * secondValue
let value = "The product of"
let mutliplying = "times"
let bet = "is"
let output = "\(value) \(firstValue) \(mutiplying) \(secondValue) \(bet) \(product)

[MOD: formatted code block - srh]

Dave Harker
Dave Harker
Courses Plus Student 15,510 Points

Please format that in such a way that it is human readable.

I mean I want to help here, but other than the first part of your sentence, the rest is jibberish. I find it highly unlikely that team treehouse phrased their instructions in such a way.

I'll follow the thread so if you update it, I might be able to offer some help.

Best of luck otherwise, :dizzy:
Dave.

1 Answer

Hi there,

I formatted your code block so it is clearer.

Your code has a few issues with it. Firstly, it is far too complicated - there's no need to create a value to interpolate every item in the output string. You just need to interpolate the numeric values. However, your code will work with some corrections.

Firstly, terminate the string - you haven't closed the inverted commas. Secondly, spell multiplying consistently in the two places you use it.

That's it - your code will work fine. But the challenge is expecting this:

let firstValue = 4
let secondValue = 9
let product = firstValue * secondValue
let output = "The product of \(firstValue) times \(secondValue) is \(product)"

I hope that helps,

Steve.