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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers Doing Math

Posted by Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

profitPerUnit

i did the math and it came out to 4.54, and it said parse error not sure how the code is supposed to be written?

script.js 
var wholesalePrice = 5.45;
var retailPrice = 9.99;
var quantity = 47;
var salesTotal = 9.99 * 47;
var profit = 213.38;
var profitPerUnit =
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>

1 Answer

Connor Walker
Connor Walker
17,985 Points

The parse error that you are getting is coming from this:

var profitPerUnit =

You are telling it your going to assign profitPerUnit a value but then you never do.

The task wants you to do this:

You can calculate this by dividing the profit by the quantity.

Remember, to do a division in JavaScript you use the / operator

Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

i was writing var profitPerunit = 213 / 47; do i need to write in the total?

Connor Walker
Connor Walker
17,985 Points

You don't need to write in any values at all for this challenge. The values that you need are already being stored in the variables. This means that you can just do: 

var profitPerUnit = profit / quantity