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400 PointsConvert your arguments to floats before you add them together. You can do this with the float() function.
Why is "float(add(num1, num2))" wrong?
def add(num1, num2):
return num1+num2
add(2, 4)
1 Answer
Manish Giri
16,266 PointsConvert your arguments to floats before you add them together.
You need to perform the conversion before adding the numbers.