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

Abhishek Dahiya
Abhishek Dahiya
3,380 Points
Posted by Abhishek Dahiya
Abhishek Dahiya
3,380 Points

solution of this problem

Something's wrong with this script. The value in the variable money is only 9. But if you preview this script you'll see the "Time to go to the theater" message. Fix this script so that it correctly tests the money and today variables and prints out the proper alert message: "It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out"

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' ) {
  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>
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

I think you should try to fix the script, like the instructions say. Can you see the mistake in one of the if statements?

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Let's try a hint first and let's look at the first conditional statement and see what result we get:

if ( money >= 100 || today === 'Friday' ) {

This translates to "If I have 100 or more OR today is Friday" then it's time to go to the theater. While you don't have enough money, it is Friday so this will evaluate to true. Remember that an OR statement only needs one to be true to evaluate to true. For both of them to be true we don't use or... we use an AND statement. We do this with the && operator. Try again with these hints! :smiley: