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

Posted by Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

fixing the script

im adding a semicolon to the friday,its not working?

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>

1 Answer

Eric Levy
Eric Levy
14,652 Points
Eric Levy
Eric Levy
14,652 Points

Two things.

  1. You should put a semi-colon after setting the today variable.
  2. You don't want a semi-colon after "else if ( money > 10 || today === 'Friday' );"