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Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
11,712 Points

Bummer: Uh oh, I didn't get the correct value returned. It should have been 50. Instead, it was None

What did i miss? What’s wrong with my code?

mathy.py
# enter your code below
def mathy(a, b, c):
    if a == 'add':
        return b+c
    elif a == 'substract':
        return b-c
    elif a == 'multiply':
        return b*c
    elif a == 'divide':
        return b/c
    else:
        return None

2 Answers

In the line elif a == 'substract':, you misspelled subtract. Other than that, your code looks fine.

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Try passing in some value on a function call.

It looks to me like you've got your function but it needs to do something with some values and you get those values when you call the function.

So the first parameter a, is where you get the string and how the program decides what kind of calculation to make.

e.g.

mathy('divide', 15, 5)
Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
11,712 Points

def mathy(divide,b,c): divide = b/c return divide

Now i got: Bummer: Uh oh, I didn't get the correct value returned. It should have been 59. Instead, it was 0.84375