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JavaScript

Lillyanne Yanez
Lillyanne Yanez
1,102 Points
Posted by Lillyanne Yanez
Lillyanne Yanez
1,102 Points

Difficulty doubling a number from a previous variable

While I'm not getting a syntax error, I can not get the function to double. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thank you

let houses = 7; function doubling(houses) { houses*= 2; return number; }

Lillyanne Yanez
Lillyanne Yanez
1,102 Points
Lillyanne Yanez
Lillyanne Yanez
1,102 Points

Apologies for not attaching a picture of the workspace. I just noticed the formatting changed after submitting my questions.

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

When posting code, use Markdown formatting to preserve the code's appearance and retain special symbols.

This function takes an argument named "houses" and doubles it, but it is returning something named "number" instead (which does not seem to be defined anywhere in the code shown). Perhaps you intended to return houses?