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

Posted by Sudesh Wong
Sudesh Wong
Courses Plus Student 1,028 Points

Or operator challenge task 1 of 1

Hi,

I am not sure where i went wrong . But it does pop out the alert message as per the instructions but it still shows me that i am wrong.

Kindly assist

Thank you

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

if ( money >  100 || 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 < 10   ) {
  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>

2 Answers

Jake Salo
Jake Salo
13,175 Points
Jake Salo
Jake Salo
13,175 Points

Hi Sudesh, the question is asking you to change the 'or' operators to the appropriate ones. In this case it would be the 'and' operator ('&&'). Try this code, it should work better :)

var money = 9;
var today = 'Friday';

if ( money >= 100 && 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' ) {
  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.");
}
Sudesh Wong
Sudesh Wong
Courses Plus Student 1,028 Points

Hi Jake, thank you very much for your guidance and i got it working.

Thank you and God Bless :)

Robin van Loon
Robin van Loon
10,301 Points
Robin van Loon
Robin van Loon
10,301 Points

Your code first validates the variable money in the if-statement.

money = 9 is less than 100 thus false, the rest isn't validated anymore because it has an OR operator, so it continues if the first statement is false.

It continues to the else-statement: alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");

Sudesh Wong
Sudesh Wong
Courses Plus Student 1,028 Points

Hi Robin,

Thank you Robin