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

Posted by Scott Hunt
Scott Hunt
1,100 Points

|| question

I seem to be stuck on this quiz regardless of the fact that I feel I have met the challenge.

It wants you to configure the code to where you get the answer It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out.

I made all of the days !== Friday in the "If" and the first two "Else If" statements and made the last "Else If" days ===Friday. Though the dialog box gave me the answer I as asked to give it kept giving me the "Bummer at least one of the || operators is logical"...I can't figure out why.

I also changed the variable to 'Monday' which also gave me the correct dialog box but the same message as listed above.

2 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What about using the and "&&" operator in those conditional statements?

Samy Basset
Samy Basset
11,862 Points
Samy Basset
Samy Basset
11,862 Points

The operators in the challange are all || (or), you need to use the && operators(and).

the variables are: money = 9; today = 'Friday';

e.g.

if(money > 10 || today === 'Friday')

So it says if one of the two variables match the code in the if gets executed. Because today is true, the code in the if runs.

In this case they both need to be true, so if we change the ||(or) to &&(and) the if statement goes as followed:

if(money > 10 && today == 'Friday')

both of the variables need to match, money is less than 10 so this is false, today is true. But because both of the variables needs to be true, the code block doesn't get executed.