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Polo Moreno
11,782 Pointswhats is the answer in this question
the answer say this
Set the 'guides' that has placeholders for 42 elements but has no values stored in it.
who is the answer?
var mixture = ['a string', 'manchas', 'a sub array', 3, 9, true];
var guides;
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Geoff Parsons
11,679 PointsThat assignment is poorly worded in my opinion. What it's asking for is for guides
to be an array that has space allocated for 42 elements but no elements assigned yet. What it's looking for is this:
var guides = new Array(42);
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jeremie singler
4,569 Pointshello var guides = [41];
because array start to count at 0
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