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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Operators Assignment Operators!

Posted by Mario Rodrigues
Mario Rodrigues
1,085 Points

I'm having trouble with a challenge that is asking me to increment the variable "year" by 1 using the += operator.

I typed in:

year += 3000

variables.rb 
# We're in the future!

year += 3000

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

You are incrementing by 3000. Try this:

year += 1