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

Samatar yusuf
Samatar yusuf
2,705 Points
Posted by Samatar yusuf
Samatar yusuf
2,705 Points

Challane task 1

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 < 0 && 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."); }

keep getting syntax error

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 < 0 && 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

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

If you run this through the console your syntax error is on line 4

if ( money >= 100 && today  'Friday' ) {

you are missing the strict equality operator between today and 'Friday'.

You have also added a money condition to this line:

} else if ( money < 0 && today == 'Friday' ) {

that along with today == 'Friday' evaluates to false so you'll return the incorrect response. Delete that money condition and you should be good.