"Make sure you return a nicely formatted string" is the error I'm receiving.

Question

I created the value of 'c' and typed the text as instructed, and yet I'm receiving the error.

method.rb

def mod(a, b)
  #write your code here
  c=a% b
  puts "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}"
end
mod(3, 2)

Answer 1 · 2015-11-17T20:54:08Z

November 17, 2015 8:54pm

There are actually two problems here causing this not to pass through:

The challenge is asking you to return the string but you're using put. Change that to return :)
You're missing the period (.) at the end of the sentence which it seems to require as well.

Answer 2 · 2015-11-17T21:15:07Z

November 17, 2015 9:15pm

Got it, Thanks for the help.

Answer 3 · 2015-11-18T06:50:16Z

November 18, 2015 6:50am

I just wanted to add that you can also do the math right in the string. Ruby will interpret it properly. For example, you could write:

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

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