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JavaScript

Posted by Chris Mason
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Chris Mason
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 24,526 Points

Unsure what I'm doing wrong with this question:

Question: "Create another variable named profit. It should hold the value of the salesTotal variable minus the wholesalePrice multiplied by the quantity. In other words, if you sold 47 items for 9.99 but only paid 5.45 for each item, how much money did you make?"

Attempted Answer:

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

var salesTotal = retailPrice * quantity; var profit = quantity * (salesTotal - wholesalePrice);

1 Answer

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
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Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
32,971 Points

It should have been like this 

var profit = salesTotal - wholesalePrice * quantity
Chris Mason
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Chris Mason
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 24,526 Points

Thank you