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Matthew Geiter
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,739 Pointscompletely lost any help?
Create a new function named max which accepts two numbers as arguments (you can name the arguments, whatever you would like). The function should return the larger of the two numbers.
HINT: You'll need to use a conditional statement to test the 2 parameters to see which is the larger of the two.
function max(wins, loses) {
return max;
var wins = 10;
var loses = 6;
return max;
}
var winner >= 10;
if (wins >= 10 ) {
alert('winner');
} else {
alert('loser');
}
1 Answer
Mark Rinkel
13,501 PointsHey, you're a ways off here. Here's some comments that might help.
function max(wins, loses) {
/* max is the name of your function. it's not returning the larger of the two, it's returning the function itself. */
return max;
/* Since this function returned, this code is entirely unreachable. It will never execute. */
var wins = 10;
var loses = 6;
return max;
}
Before the function max(wins, loses) is called we don't know which will be larger (ie. the 'winner'). Let's rename the two parameters to number1 and number2.
function max(number1, number2) {
/* we need to figure out which number is larger. We can do this with > or <. */
if (number1 > number2) {
// This code will ONLY execute if number1 is bigger than number2.
return number1;
}
else {
// This code will only run if number1 was NOT bigger than number2.
return number2;
}