Ruby Basics Code Challenge

Question

Hi, I’m newbie of coding, and I’ve stacked Ruby Basics Code Challenge.

In the previous challenge, we wrote a method that returned the remainder of two arguments when divided. That's cool, but it would be nicer if the method returned the remainder in a nice full sentence. Use string interpolation to return the remainder inside the sentence “The remainder of a divided by b is c.” where a is your “a” variable, b is your “b” variable, and c is the value of a % b.

I wrote the following code, however, it returns “ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 3)"

def mod(a, b, c) puts "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is#{c}" return c = a %b end mod(1,2)

I know it’s very basic, and I’m embarrassed to ask this easy question, but... please help me!

method.rb

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

mod(1,2)

Answer 1 · 2016-10-23T04:55:38Z

October 23, 2016 4:55am

Hey Yuichi,

To start, you should not be modifying the parameters of the mod method. It should still only take two arguments, a and b. The challenge prompt is specific and will not accept anything different. Instead, c should be declared inside of the mod method and be assigned the remainder of a divided by b. Lastly, you'll want to return the required sentence using string interpolation.

Here is a correct solution:

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

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