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Posted by Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

task 2 challenge profit not working. Please can anyone help me? I'm stumped.

I've racked my brains over this and looked at other suggestions but doesn't work. Think it may be a bug. I've tried all three methods below and none are working.

var wholesalePrice = 5.45; var retailPrice = 9.99; var quantity = 47;

task 1 var salesTotal = retailPrice * quantity; task 2 var profit = salesTotal - (wholesalePrice * quanity);) var profit = (salesTotal - wholesalePrice) * quanity; var profit = salesTotal - wholesalePrice * quantity;

1 Answer

Daniel Vigil
Daniel Vigil
26,473 Points

You are pretty close. There are a few syntax errors with the spelling of quantity and you have an extra ")". I have put them in bold for you.

task 2 var profit = salesTotal - (wholesalePrice * quanity); ) var profit = (salesTotal - wholesalePrice) * quanity; var profit = salesTotal - wholesalePrice * quantity;

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

Hi, I didn't have any syntax errors in my actual code, but you helped tremendously by confirming that I was on the right track. I tried for I don't know how many times var profit = salesTotal - wholesalePrice * quanity; and it said error. Thx so much!