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

Justin Townsend
Justin Townsend
4,720 Points
Posted by Justin Townsend
Justin Townsend
4,720 Points

JavaScript question

not sure what it wants, i thought I put the correct answer in but i didn't

script.js 
var money = 9;
var today = 'Friday'

if (money >= 9 || today === 'Friday') {
  alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");
} else 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

diogorferreira
diogorferreira
19,363 Points
diogorferreira
diogorferreira
19,363 Points

Hey, you don't need to move that statement up to the top. The question just wants you to notice how they are comparing the 2 statements in each line. Notice how they all use the || which would return True if either are correct, meaning if money was 9 but it wasn't Friday it would still execute alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");

  • You just need to change this to an && to make sure both statements are checked.
  • Last thing to check is the last else if, you would need to make sure it checks if it is Friday, it's currently checking if it's not Friday

This is the code if you need any more help: 

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.");
}