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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Super Conditional Challenge

Posted by Krystian Kochanski
Krystian Kochanski
1,845 Points

code question

I am not sure what might be wrong with my answer. To me it looks logical var money = 9; var today = 'Friday'

if ( money >= 100 || 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("Time for a movie");
} else if ( money < 9 || 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."); }

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

if ( money >= 100 || 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("Time for a movie");   
} else if ( 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 http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

3 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Let's just take a look at the first if statement:

if ( money >= 100 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater");    
}

What this translates to in English is: "If I have more than 100 or today is Friday, it's time to go to the theater!". This means only one of those has to be true for you to go to the theater. If you had 0 money you'd still try to go! What you want is for this sentence to say "If I have more than 100 and today is Friday, it's time to go to the theater!". So you need to be using the AND operator here.

Give it another shot with these hints in mind! :sparkles:

Krystian Kochanski
Krystian Kochanski
1,845 Points

thanks Jennifer

Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
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Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
20,629 Points

The issue is the || statement. This is an or statement and, as long as one or the other is met the condition happens.

So that is why this is appearing.

alert("Time to go to the theater");

You need to replace it with an && statement which means both conditions have to be met and go down from their to fix all the conditions.

Krystian Kochanski
Krystian Kochanski
1,845 Points

thanks

Krystian Kochanski
Krystian Kochanski
1,845 Points
Krystian Kochanski
Krystian Kochanski
1,845 Points

Thank you both for the hints. I passed the test !