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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Use Multiple Conditions

Posted by April Mae Briggs
April Mae Briggs
979 Points

Use of Multiple Conditions

I feel like I'm missing something really simple, and I am stuuuuck. It's got something to do with || or && operators.

script.js 
const money = 9;
const today = 'Friday'

if ( money > 10 || 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("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out.");   
} else {
  alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

You're on the right track! Some of those logic operators are not correct for the decision being made.

Hint: you only need to fix the operators, you won't need to add new comparison expressions.

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,197 Points
Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,197 Points

Steven Parker is correct. You need to think about what the && and || mean and go through the logic of the code one line at a time to see what the output will be given the values for your variables.

But I think another BIG sticking point is that it seems you have changed the code in line 8 to read something different than what it was originally. The ONLY things you needed to change were the operators.

Hope this helps!