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

Posted by arshia mohammadi
arshia mohammadi
7,657 Points

Can anyone solve this challenge ?!!

This is the title: "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>

2 Answers

Aakash Srivastav
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Aakash Srivastav
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Aakash Srivastav
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Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points

Ok , so you just have to print "It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out".
So , put "&&" in first three conditions as a result first three conditions will become false and eventually , fourth will be the first one to get selected. You can see , in first three option , only due to today === 'Friday , they get selected one after another as money>=100 , money >=50 , money > 10 is false in first three conditions.

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 ( money !== 10 && 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.");
}

Hope it helps :)

Gabbie Metheny
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 Points
Gabbie Metheny
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 Points

The only thing you should need to change in this challenge is the logical operator for each condition. The idea is that if it IS Friday AND another condition is met, that particular condition will evaluate to true and the correct alert will be displayed; if it IS Friday but none of the additional conditions are met, the last else if will run; and the else will apply if none of the above conditions were met. Let me know if you're still having trouble with it!