What am I doing wrong?

Question

I keep getting the following message: "Bummer! The function does not appear to be returning the correct value. Is the return type a float?"

As you can clearly see I have defined the resulting variable to be a float type - what am I doing wrong?

functions.c

int addTwo(float a, float b)
{
  float sum;
  sum = a + b;
  return sum;
}

Answer 1 · 2015-03-15T05:08:57Z

March 15, 2015 5:08am

If this is from the question on the quiz after the video then the answer should look like this

float addTwo(float a, float b);

float addTwo(float a, float b) { float sum; sum = a + b; return sum; }

the float at the beginning of the function is saying that the function will be returning a float value

Answer 2 · 2015-03-11T19:56:13Z

March 11, 2015 7:56pm

ask a question get a question ?

int addTwo(float a, float b) <---- what is the purpose of int here

Answer 3 · 2015-03-12T00:30:11Z

March 12, 2015 12:30am

You have "int" at beginning of function definition this specifies a return type

is the caller of this function expecting an int ?

Answer 4 · 2015-03-11T19:58:25Z

March 11, 2015 7:58pm

I was under impression that this is how you define a function. Am I wrong?

Answer 5 · 2015-03-12T00:35:20Z

March 12, 2015 12:35am

No it does not, but whenever I specify ```int addTwo(float a, float b)''' it doesn't work either, which is why I am a bit lost.

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