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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Returns: Part 2

i cant figure out what i missed here

it says to turn the quotient of a and b into a string, so thats what i did. but it keeps saying i have a spelling error

method.rb
def mod(a, b)
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is c."
end

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points

The task specifies that:

a is your “a” variable, b is your “b” variable, and c is the value of a % b.

In the string you return you have typed the literal character "c", the c in the example string is just a placeholder that should in the end contain the result of a % b. Like this:

def mod(a, b)
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a % b}."
end
Artem Melokumov
Artem Melokumov
3,543 Points

We need to set up the c and than use the interpolation to return it

def mod(a, b)
c = a%b
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}."
end