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

Imran Chowdhury
Imran Chowdhury
5,684 Points
Posted by Imran Chowdhury
Imran Chowdhury
5,684 Points

I don't know what I'm doing wrong in this last code challenge: "Something's wrong with this script...." Please help!

Can someone please take a look into my code changes and tell me what I'm doing wrong.

For some reason the first block of 'if' clause gets executed even after making changes to the whole code.

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

if ( money !== 10 && 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' || money <= 9 ) {
  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>
Imran Chowdhury
Imran Chowdhury
5,684 Points
Imran Chowdhury
Imran Chowdhury
5,684 Points

Thank you Cheo R for you help. I figured out what was wrong and made the adjustments. And I successfully passed the challenge! Cheer! THUMBS UP

1 Answer

Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points

Hello Salman, your if statement is saying that if the variable today has the string Friday, that part of the statement is true; it also says if your variable money can make that part of the statement true as long as the variable is anything other than the integer 10. 

var money = 9;
var today = 'Friday'

if ( money !== 10 && today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater");

So assigning money as 9 would make that portion true and assigning today as Friday would make that portion of the statement true as well. Both being true makes the whole if statement true, executing that if clause.