Challenge lesson: Create a function named square. I dont get this can you guys please help me

Question

I dont really understand any of it please someone break it down for me and explain what they want me to do.

squaring.py

import math

def square(number):
    return ("squared")

squared = (number * 2)

print(squared)

Answer 1 · 2020-05-06T21:26:03Z

May 6, 2020 9:26pm

When you're trying to find the square of a number you have to multiply it by itself.

For example:

The square of 3 is 9.

3 x 3 = 9

Answer 2 · 2020-05-07T16:01:06Z

May 7, 2020 4:01pm

I'll try to explain as a newbie in python myself.

Its telling you to : Create a function named square. It should define a single parameter named number.

So your line of code that reads: def square(number) Is correct.

So you use the : to open the body and you wrote returned(squared)

And then you wrote squared = (number *2)

I believe you are getting a error message with this code or a define error.

So What I did in the body is I returned the parameter number times itself.

Then I assigned result to square(3)

And you print the result.

I hope I helped you in some way because this was also a challenge for me too.

Dont give up !

Answer 3 · 2020-05-13T23:22:24Z

May 13, 2020 11:22pm

The objective was to

In your code below, you used didn't call it number but squared.

Your code would work but wouldn't pass the exam, because we're expecting the argument named "number" instead of squared.

def square(squared):
    return(squared*squared)

print(square(5))

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