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Aditya Pratap Singh
64 PointsUnable to solve this conditional problem.
I am unable to figure out the solution to this problem.
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.");
}
<!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>
2 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsThere's 2 things to consider here.
First of all, think about the conditional operators you want to use with this challenge. At the moment what's happening is the if blocks are using OR operators which is what the two || characters mean. That means conditions pass as true only if one of them passes as true and not false.
In JavaScript there's another operator called the AND operator that's represented by 2 Ampersands, &&. This means that JavaScript will only pass an if condition when BOTH the conditions are true.
Once you've worked out what operators the if conditions need you'll need to make sure the final if block evaluates to the same value of the today variable, which would be true, or truthy.
Good luck with the challenge :)
Brian Jensen
Treehouse StaffYou have half of the answer completed by changing !== to === in the final else if statement, so good job there!
You can only go out if you have the money to go out AND only if it is Friday. So you need to change all of the OR statements to AND, then you should pass.