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Python Technical Interview Prep: Python Basics Basic Python How Do You Like Them Apples

Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
11,712 Points
Posted by Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
Noor Hafiza Binti Ibrahim
11,712 Points

How to solve this challenge?

Bummer: Uh oh, I didn't get the correct value returned. It should have been 50. Instead, it was 150

mathy.py 
# enter your code below
def mathy(a,b,c):
    a=b+c
    return a

1 Answer

Kristjan Vingel
Kristjan Vingel
7,992 Points
Kristjan Vingel
Kristjan Vingel
7,992 Points

You need to have a conditional flow inside your function that does math operations based on the first parameter. E.g. if operation (argument) is "divide", then return number one + number two and so on.