How to set number?

Question

I tried setting actual number for the first line, but it wouldn't pass. When I get to exercise 2 now it needs actual numbers. lol

script.js

function max(five,eight){
  return eight; }
alert(max('five','eight'));

Answer 1 · 2016-06-27T18:52:32Z

June 27, 2016 6:52pm

You need to add the numerical values. Like 5 and 8. No quotation marks.

Edit: Although, I don't think your code will run, even if you do that.

Answer 2 · 2016-06-27T20:05:56Z

June 27, 2016 8:05pm

You need to test to see which number is larger in order to make this reusable.

Something like this checks to see which number is larger and returns it

function max(numOne, numTwo){
 return numOne > numTwo ?  numOne :  numTwo;
}

(This ternary operation basically says "is numOne larger than numTwo? If it is, return numOne, if not return numTwo)

While your answer does return the larger number, it doesn't work as intended if you switch around the numbers you pass in.

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