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JUSTICE MARCUM
194 PointsUse the favorite_color variable in your print function to output the following message to the screen
favorite_color=input("what is your favorite color? ")
print("the color," purple "is a great color!")
2 Answers

Steven Parker
221,451 PointsIf you want to pass the literal strings and the variable to the "print" statements as separate arguments, you need to place commas between them.
Also remember that the variable you created is named "favorite_color", not "purple".

Mercedes Aker
6,544 Pointsfavorite_color= input("What is your favorite color?") print("The color, "favorite_color" is a great color!")
I did the above code for this challenge, why am I getting a syntax error?

Steven Parker
221,451 PointsYou need concatenation operators ("+") on either side of favorite color
to combine it with the strings..