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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Numbers Multiplication and Division

Posted by irene poh poh heng
irene poh poh heng
1,245 Points

help! i do not understand the task as required: "Set the variable product to be a multiple of the variables a and b."

need clarification on the task

variable.rb 
a = 6
b = 2
a*b = 12

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi,

You're correct - but you want to create a variable called product and store the result of a * b in it:

a = 6
b = 2
product = a * b

Make sense?

Steve.