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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Super Conditional Challenge

Aaron Jones
Aaron Jones
637 Points
Posted by Aaron Jones
Aaron Jones
637 Points

I'm having some trouble with this question

heres the question- " somethings wrong with this script. the value in the variable money is only 9 . but if you preview this script you'll see the "time to go to the theater" message. fix this script so that it correctly test the money and today variables and prints out the proper alert message: "its friday, but i don't have enough money to go out".

script.js 
var money = 9;
var today = 'Friday'

if ( money >= 100 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time to go to the theater");    
} else if ( money >= 50 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie and dinner");    
} else if ( money > 10 || today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("Time for a movie");   
} else if ( today === 'Friday' ) {
  alert("It's Friday, but I don't have enough money to go out");   
} else {
  alert("This isn't Friday. I need to stay home.");
}
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>

1 Answer

Michael Davis
PLUS
Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points
Michael Davis
Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points

The OR operand (||) will pass true if either conditional is true.

// If 'test A' OR 'test B' is true, then do something
if ( testA == true || testB == true ) {
  doSomething();
}

If you want to check if BOTH conditionals is true, use the AND operand (&&).

// If 'test A' AND 'test B' are true, then do something
if ( testA == true && testB == true ) {
  doSomething();
}

Putting that into practice, changing all of the OR operands (||) in the tests into AND operands (&&) should provide the results you need.