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

Posted by Abdullahi Abdinasir Ali
Abdullahi Abdinasir Ali
9,520 Points

I set || operators to else if statement but still refusing

I wrong all the statements to written by browser . But I don't understand wats wrong and why . Please any recommendations

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 ( money === 9 || 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

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hi there,

It looks like you've changed the first several "=== 'Friday'" conditions to "!== 'Friday'". Instead of doing that, you want to keep the === and change the || (or) to && (and) for all of those. In the end, all of the logic should be "and" logic (&&) and all of the conditionals should end with "today === 'Friday'. This includes the last one, which starts as !==. You also don't need to add the money value to the last else if statement - I believe it's supposed to just write that line if it's Friday and the money value is less than 10, which the conditional takes care of on its own. The final code looks something like:

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.");
}

Let me know if anything doesn't make sense - I'd be glad to explain further.