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Randy Varley
1,533 PointsMy conditional code is good. I tried it in the REPL on my own computer, but the question is still failing.
The first question says write a conditional if that sets var admitted to True if age is >= 13. I did that and it work. Question 2 says add an else that sets admitted to False if age isn't >= 13. I did this. It works in my REPL, but it's still failing. If I set the age to > 13, it says 'now question one is failing. If I set it to 12, it still fails.
admitted = None
age = 13
if age >= 13:
admitted = True
else:
admitted = False
2 Answers
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 PointsHey Randy,
this problem occurs because you don't have to set the age variable yourself. This will be done automatically when the challenge is evaluated. Right now it always evaluates to True and that's probably why the challenge fails.
So this should work:
admitted = None
if age >= 13:
admitted = True
else:
admitted = False
Good luck! :)
Randy Varley
1,533 PointsThanks. That fixed the issue. It's odd that the question states 'I'm going to have you create a variable named age . . .' if they don't expect the user to declare the variable.
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 PointsMy challenge description says "I'm going to create a variable named age.".