Hi! I just completed the Conditionals - Race Day exercise and I decided to play around with the values of my variables. Everything worked as expected until I let runnerAge = true. Rather than logging “See the registration desk.” it logged “Your race starts at 12:30PM. Your race number is 910.” which is the result I would expect for entrants under 18. Same thing happens when I let runnerAge = false.
let raceNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000);
let earlyBird = true;
// variable indicating runner's age
let runnerAge = true;
if(earlyBird && runnerAge > 18) {
raceNumber += 1000;
} else {
raceNumber;
}
if(earlyBird === true && runnerAge > 18) {
console.log(`Your race starts at 9:30AM. Your race number is ${raceNumber}.`);
} else if(earlyBird === !true && runnerAge > 18) {
console.log(`Your race starts at 11:00AM. Your race number is ${raceNumber}.`);
} else if (earlyBird === true || earlyBird === false && runnerAge < 18) {
console.log(`Your race starts at 12:30PM. Your race number is ${raceNumber}.`);
} else {
console.log(`See the registration desk.`)
}
When I changed runnerAge to 18, or to a string, it logged “See the registration desk” as I expected. Why does entering a boolean for runnerAge do this?
