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

Dylan Davenport
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Dylan Davenport
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Posted by Dylan Davenport
Dylan Davenport
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Missing ) after statement??

I wrote some code for the quiz project and went to test it. It says that i am missing a parenthesis somewhere after the first if statement but I can't seem to find where. Any thoughts? Below is the code thus far:

var questions = 5;

alert('Welcome to the JS quiz! You will be asked 5 questions, at the end depending on your success you will be awarded a crown. Good Luck!');

var question1 = prompt('What is the capital of the United States?');
if ( question1 === 'Washington DC' ) {
  document.write('CORRECT! you have ' + (questions - 1) ' left, keep going.');

} else {
  document.write('WRONG! Sorry. Maybe the next question will be easier. ' + 'You have ' + (questions - 1) ' left.');
}

Moderator edited: Markdown added so code will display properly in the forums.

2 Answers

Larry Coonrod
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You are missing the '+' symbol to concate (questions-1) to the string 'left, keep going. It need to be on both sides of the operation: + (questions-1) +.

You have the same issue in the else document write statement. It is easy to forget the second plus sign. I mistake I make about 50 times before it became habit.

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, Dylan! From what I can see, it looks like you have a problem in your first document.write. You've written:

document.write('CORRECT! you have ' + (questions - 1) ' left, keep going.');

Try changing it to:

document.write('CORRECT! you have ' + (questions - 1)  + ' left, keep going.');

It looks like you simply omitted a concatenation operator on accident. Note the extra + sign in the second version between the variable and the ending string.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

edited for additional information

And Larry is correct, it's also missing from the second document.write statement.