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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures If challenge!

Posted by julianacrispo
julianacrispo
4,105 Points

"Set a variable called "too_fast" equal to "true" if the car_speed is faster than the speed_limit." Why is answer wrong?

My answer was: if car_speed > speed_limit too_fast = "true" end

10 Answers

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

Use the boolean value true, not a string value "true".

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

And make sure these are 3 separate lines, it won't work as one line.

Aurelien Schlumberger
Aurelien Schlumberger
6,127 Points

@Maciej Czuchnowski, not that your answer is wrong, but actually you could do it in one line in Ruby and is still good design. ```ruby : too_fast = true if car_speed > speed_limit

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I know, I was referring to the code that Juliana showed, with end at the end :)

Carl Sergile
Carl Sergile
16,570 Points
Carl Sergile
Carl Sergile
16,570 Points 
 car_speed = 55speed_limit = 60

if car_speed > speed_limit
  too_fast = true 
else
  too_fast = false
end

THIS IS IT.

Roscoe Coney
Roscoe Coney
13,124 Points
Roscoe Coney
Roscoe Coney
13,124 Points

type the following:

too_fast = true

missfit
missfit
18,561 Points
missfit
missfit
18,561 Points

Hey I came across this post and none of the answers above worked for me, however the code I typed in below finally worked. Hope that helps someone.

car_speed = 55 speed_limit = 60 too_fast = car_speed > speed_limit

if too_fast puts "true" else puts "false" end

missfit
missfit
18,561 Points
missfit
missfit
18,561 Points

Hey I came across this post and none of the answers above worked for me, however the code I typed in below finally worked. Hope that helps someone.

car_speed = 55 speed_limit = 60 too_fast = car_speed > speed_limit

if too_fast puts "true" else puts "false" end

missfit
missfit
18,561 Points
missfit
missfit
18,561 Points

Hey I came across this post and none of the answers above worked for me, however the code I typed in below finally worked. Hope that helps someone.

car_speed = 55 speed_limit = 60 too_fast = car_speed > speed_limit

if too_fast puts "true" else puts "false" end

ellie adam
ellie adam
26,377 Points
ellie adam
ellie adam
26,377 Points

this works

too_fast = true

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The section is called "control structures", so you were supposed to use an if statement to get that result, assuming that the variable values may be different in the future, n which case your code would fail the expectation.

Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points
Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points

This is the answer and I believe it is the structure they want.

car_speed = 65 speed_limit = 60 too_fast = true //Set a variable called "too_fast" equal to "true"

if car_speed > speed_limit //if the car_speed is faster than the speed_limit. puts too_fast end

Nasser Sanou
Nasser Sanou
6,896 Points
Nasser Sanou
Nasser Sanou
6,896 Points

This works as well!

car_speed = 55 speed_limit = 60

if car_speed > speed_limit too_fast = true else car_speed < speed_limit too_fast = false end

Ben Holland
PLUS
Ben Holland
Courses Plus Student 4,062 Points
Ben Holland
Ben Holland
Courses Plus Student 4,062 Points

if car_speed > speed_limit

too_fast = true

end

That is the answer.