FAQ: Control Flow in Ruby - Combining Boolean Operators

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Combining Boolean Operators” exercise from the lesson “Control Flow in Ruby”.

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Hello there, it seems to me the following expression evaluates to false and not true :

boolean_1 = (3 < 4 || false) && (false || true)

Can you please confirm the solution ?

TY

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boolean_1 = (3 < 4 || false) && (false || true)

Let’s break it down by working within the parentheses. 3 < 4 is true and false is false. We have an or operator here.

In a previous lesson about or:

Ruby’s || is called an inclusive or because it evaluates to true when one or the other or both expressions are true.

So (3 < 4 || false) evaluates to true.

Now, we have (false || true). false is false and true is true. Are one of these expressions true? Yes, so (false || true) must be true.

true && true evaluates to true.

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Hello! Happy Friday afternoon to all.

Something odd happened with this exercise. In the coding space, I answered the three Booleans as

  1. = true
  2. = false
  3. = true

When I clicked RUN, I got the error message “Oops! Something went wrong somewhere…” Double checked, ran it again, same error message.

Went to ‘View Solution’, assuming I’d missed a symbol somewhere, but the solution is the same. ??? No idea what the error was for. I chose ‘Replace with Solution’, whereupon it ran with no error.

Any idea why it gave me an error? Are spaces significant? I might have added a space without noticing.

Thanks!

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Are you actually making an assignment, or just answering the question? If the latter, then remove =.

Please link to exercise so we can have a gander.

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Okay, thanks for taking a look.

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-ruby/lessons/control-flow-in-ruby/exercises/combining-boolean-operators
………

boolean_1 = (3 < 4 || false) && (false || true)

boolean_1 = true

boolean_2 = !true && (!true || 100 != 5**2)

boolean_2 = false

boolean_3 = true || !(true || false)

boolean_3 = true
………

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After resetting and redoing the question, it still comes up correct. Cannot reproduce your described issue. At least you know you were/are on the right track.

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Okay, great. Some flaky thing on my end, apparently.

Many thanks, again. Sorry…

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