Passing an argument to function

Question

I honestly do not know what I am doing wrong. It keeps stating that Task 1 is no longer passing, but the code is valid.

script.js

function returnValue(money, hours){
  var echo = money * hours;
  return echo;
}

returnValue(10.25, 8);

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>

Answer 1 · 2017-11-14T07:18:47Z

November 14, 2017 7:18am

Hi Billie,

For part one you were supposed to create a function to pass in a value and then return the value. Your code is no longer doing that. Once this function is created, you don't have to change the function anymore.

The second part is for outside of the function, to declare a variable, and call the function with a string parameter. You are not passing in a string and are not assigning the function to a variable.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2 · 2017-11-14T07:24:55Z

November 14, 2017 7:24am

Hi Billie, according to the challenge, you're to set the value of the variable 'echo' to be the result of calling the 'returnValue' function, something like this:

var echo = returnValue();

Then later in the challenge you're instructed to pass in any string you like for the parameter(i.e. an argument) when calling the function. All you need do is to return that single parameter you used in declaring the function in task 1 with the 'return' keyword, then call the 'returnValue' function with any string as the argument and finally store it in the 'echo' variable. For example:

function returnValue(text){
  return text;
}

var echo = returnValue('I love coding with JavaScript');

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Passing an argument to function

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