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Tyler Draughn
1,520 PointsThe video did not go over computing products.
I guess my question is: how do I do this?
// Enter your code below
let firstValue: Int = 3
let secondValue: Int = 12
let product = "firstValue * secondValue"
let output = "\(firstValue) \(secondValue) \(product)"
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsThe product part of your code is mostly correct, the math operation you have typed is as it should be but you have enclosed it in quotes which is wrong. quotes are only used when declaring a String, for any other type of value or expression you should not use quote marks.
Also product in this instance is just a somewhat complex way of saying "result of a multiplication operation", so the product of 2 * 3 for example is 6.
Another problem with your solution is that the output string is not formatted properly. Challenges are very picky about text output, your string needs to match the one requested exactly. The challenge wants the resulting string to look something like this:
"The product of 3 times 12 is 36"
Your output lacks all of the words around the numbers, which needs to be there.
Taking all of those fixes into account the resulting code will look like this:
let firstValue: Int = 3
let secondValue: Int = 12
let product = firstValue * secondValue
let output = "The product of \(firstValue) times \(secondValue) is \(product)"
So your code was quite close, you only made a couple of small mistakes.