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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge

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Issue calculating the # of correct answers

/*

  1. Store correct answers
    • When quiz begins, no answers are correct */ let correctAnswers = 0;

// 2. Store the rank of a player let playerRank;

// 3. Select the <main> HTML element let results = document.querySelector('main');

/*

  1. Ask at least 5 questions
    • Store each answer in a variable
    • Keep track of the number of correct answers */ const question1 = prompt('What is the biggest country in the world?'); const question2 = prompt('How many continents are in the world?'); const question3 = prompt('Where is the Amazon river located?'); const question4 = prompt('Which country has more pandas?'); const question5 = prompt('What is the highest mountain');

const answer1 = 'russia'; const answer2 = '6'; const answer3 = 'brazil'; const answer4 = 'china'; const answer5 = 'mount everest';

if (question1 === answer1) { correctAnswers += 1; } else if (question2 === answer2) { correctAnswers++; } else if (question3 === answer3) { correctAnswers += 1; } else if (question4 === answer4) { correctAnswers += 1; } else if (question5 === answer5) { correctAnswers += 1; } else { correctAnswers = 0; }

/*

  1. Rank player based on number of correct answers
    • 5 correct = Gold
    • 3-4 correct = Silver
    • 1-2 correct = Bronze
    • 0 correct = No crown */

if (correctAnswers === 5) { playerRank = 'Gold'; } else if (correctAnswers === 3 && correctAnswers === 4) { playerRank = 'Silver'; } else if (correctAnswers === 1 && correctAnswers < 3) { playerRank = 'Bronze'; } else { playerRank = 'No crown'; }

// 6. Output results to the <main> element

results.innerHTML = <h1>You got ${correctAnswers} out of 5 questions correct. Crown earned: ${playerRank}</h1>;

for some reason when I run the code, it only shows 1 out of questions correct as an output, any idea why? I checked the syntax and the variable and I can't find problem.

Thank you

5 Answers

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
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Hi Ismael!

You were on the right track!?!

I fixed several things, to make it work, though...

You had some key code commented out.

You didn't need all the else statements.

Your innerHTML string, being a template literal, needed to be surrounded by backticks.

This should work:

/*

// 1. Store correct answers
When quiz begins, no answers are correct */
let correctAnswers = 0;

// 2. Store the rank of a player (declare the variable, really)
let playerRank;

// 3. Select the <main> HTML element
let results = document.querySelector('main');

/*

Ask at least 5 questions
Store each answer in a variable
Keep track of the number of correct answers */
const question1 = prompt('What is the biggest country in the world?');
const question2 = prompt('How many continents are in the world?');
const question3 = prompt('Where is the Amazon river located?');
const question4 = prompt('Which country has more pandas?');
const question5 = prompt('What is the highest mountain');
const answer1 = 'russia';
const answer2 = '6';
const answer3 = 'brazil';
const answer4 = 'china';
const answer5 = 'mount everest';

if (question1 === answer1) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question2 === answer2) { correctAnswers++; }
if (question3 === answer3) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question4 === answer4) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question5 === answer5) { correctAnswers += 1; }

/*

Rank player based on number of correct answers
5 correct = Gold
3-4 correct = Silver
1-2 correct = Bronze
0 correct = No crown */
if (correctAnswers === 5) { playerRank = 'Gold'; } else if (correctAnswers === 3 && correctAnswers === 4) { playerRank = 'Silver'; } else if (correctAnswers === 1 && correctAnswers < 3) { playerRank = 'Bronze'; } else { playerRank = 'No crown'; }

// 6. Output results to the <main> element

results.innerHTML = `<h1>You got ${correctAnswers} out of 5 questions correct. Crown earned: ${playerRank}</h1>`;

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points
Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

Yes, (that was the biggest issue) a logic error (which trips me up often, so don't feel bad!?!).

You want to test every answer, so no else statements are needed.

BTW, I just noticed that you could have used correctAnswers++; for all five cases, but correctAnswers += 1; is virtually identical (just slightly more typing!?! LOL)

One tip: to debug something like this, I put console.log statements all over the code to test/see the variable values as they are set, and often it will point out the problem.

Oh and I often test JS code here, just to see it in action, I did in this case:

https://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_array

Copy this code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<main>
</main>

<script>
/*

Store correct answers
When quiz begins, no answers are correct */
let correctAnswers = 0;

// 2. Store the rank of a player
let playerRank;

// 3. Select the <main> HTML element
let results = document.querySelector('main');

/*

Ask at least 5 questions
Store each answer in a variable
Keep track of the number of correct answers */
const question1 = prompt('What is the biggest country in the world?');
const question2 = prompt('How many continents are in the world?');
const question3 = prompt('Where is the Amazon river located?');
const question4 = prompt('Which country has more pandas?');
const question5 = prompt('What is the highest mountain');
const answer1 = 'russia';
const answer2 = '6';
const answer3 = 'brazil';
const answer4 = 'china';
const answer5 = 'mount everest';

if (question1 === answer1) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question2 === answer2) { correctAnswers++; }
if (question3 === answer3) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question4 === answer4) { correctAnswers += 1; }
if (question5 === answer5) { correctAnswers += 1; }

/*

Rank player based on number of correct answers
5 correct = Gold
3-4 correct = Silver
1-2 correct = Bronze
0 correct = No crown */
if (correctAnswers === 5) { playerRank = 'Gold'; } else if (correctAnswers === 3 && correctAnswers === 4) { playerRank = 'Silver'; } else if (correctAnswers === 1 && correctAnswers < 3) { playerRank = 'Bronze'; } else { playerRank = 'No crown'; }

// 6. Output results to the <main> element

results.innerHTML = `<h1>You got ${correctAnswers} out of 5 questions correct. Crown earned: ${playerRank}</h1>`;


</script>

</body>
</html>

Paste it in the left pane of that link (overwrite what's there), run it, and you'll see it in action!?!

Again, I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!

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Got ya!, thank you so much for the tips, appreciate it :)

seema chavesta
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/*

  1. Store correct answers
    • When quiz begins, no answers are correct */ let correctAnswer = 0;

// 2. Store the rank of a player let playerRank;

let answer = prompt('Is HTML programming language? yes or no'); if(answer === 'no'){ correctAnswer = 1; playerRank = "Bronze"; } answer - prompt('is javaScript is programming language? yes or no'); if(answer === 'yes'){ correctAnswer = 2; playerRank = "Silver"; }

answer = prompt('is Css is programming language? yes or no'); if(answer === "no"){ correctAnswer = 3; playerRank = "Silver"; }

answer = prompt('is React programming language? yes or no'); if(answer === 'No'){ correctAnswer = 4; playerRank = "Silver"; }

answer = prompt('is Css stand for casecading style sheet? yes or no'); if(answer === 'yes'){ correctAnswer = 5; playerRank = "Gold"; }

let main = document.querySelector('main');

if(correctAnswer === 1){ main.innerHTML = <h1> You have answered ${correctAnswer} out of 5 and you have earned ${playerRank} </h1>; }else if(correctAnswer === 2){ main.innerHTML = <h1>You have answered ${correctAnswer} out of 5 and you have earned ${playerRank} </h1>;

}else if (correctAnswer === 3 || correctAnswer === 4){ main.innerHTML = <h1>You have answered ${correctAnswer} out of 5 and you have earned ${playerRank} </h1>; }else if(correctAnswer === 5){ main.innerHTML = <h1> You have answered ${correctAnswer} out of 5 and you have earned ${playerRank} </h1>; }else { main.innerHTML = <h1> You have earned no crown </h1>; }

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Great, now I understand, so basically else if clause was preventing the whole code block to run right?