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Antonio Rodrigues
1,218 Pointsunder the function definition, call your new function and pass it the argument 3.
great now that you have created your new square method, let's put it to use.
Under the function definition, call your new function and pass it the argument 3.
Since your square function returns a value, create a new variable named result to store the value from the function call. i dont know how to do this. it would greatly help if somebody showed me a visual example
def square(number):
return(number * number)
result=("square(3)")
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Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsYou're actually really close. The only thing really wrong here are the quotation marks ("). Wrapping something in quotation marks (" or ') tells Python that everything in between is a string, which means that it's just data that Python doesn't have to worry about. Things have meaning to Python if you don't wrap it in quotation marks, so Python will try to execute it. For example, to call the print function, we'd write it like this:
print("Everything between quotation marks is a string, and everything outside them is not")
The following will show in the console:
Everything between quotation marks is a string, and everything outside them is not