String Interpolation Swift Basics

Question

What am I missing in this practice??

Using these values, we want to compute the product and print out the product in a formatted string.

Step 1: Declare a constant named product and assign the result of multiplying firstValue and secondValue together. (To multiply two values, a and b, we write a * b).

Step 2: Using string interpolation, create a string literal that describes the operation we just performed. For example, given the following values for firstValue, secondValue and product respectively: 2, 4, 8. The string should read: "The product of 2 times 4 is 8". Assign this string to a constant named output.

let firstValue: Int = 10 let secondValue: Int = 20 let product: String = "firstValue * secondValue" let output: String = "The product of", firstValue, "times", secondValue, "is", product

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// Enter your code below
let firstValue: Int = 10
let secondValue: Int = 20
let product: String = "firstValue * secondValue"
let output: String = "The product of", firstValue, "times", secondValue, "is", product

Answer 1 · 2019-11-01T17:08:13Z

November 1, 2019 5:08pm

Here's a few hints:

it might work better to make "product" be a numeric value instead of a string
the instructions say to use string interpolation to create the "output"
for interpolation, there should be only one string being assigned
to interpolate variables, their names should be made into tokens (like: "The value is \(variable)")

Answer 2 · 2019-11-01T21:35:28Z

November 1, 2019 9:35pm

For the first part of the challenge, although you have a correct answer, it is not necessary to explicitly declare firstValue and secondValue as Ints.

let firstValue = 1

let secondValue = 2

let product = firstValue * secondValue

let output = "The product of \(firstValue) times \(secondValue) is \(product)"

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