Raceday help please?

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#1

Hi all

Could anyone help please?

I am a bit stuck with this one. As you can see from the below code, the racers registered late, so the ‘if (age => 18 && registeredEarly === true){’ command should not execute, but the ‘} else if (age => 18 && !registeredEarly === true’ should.

this outputs - You will race at 9:30 am with race number 395 GOOD LUCK

let raceNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000);

const registeredEarly = false;

const age = 19;

if (registeredEarly === true && age >= 18) {raceNumber += 1000};

if (age => 18 && registeredEarly === true){

console.log (You will race at 9:30 am with race number ,raceNumber , GOOD LUCK );

} else if (age => 18 && !registeredEarly === true){console.log (You will race at 11:00 am with race number , raceNumber , GOOD LUCK and register earlier next time!! );};

I’m a bit confused.

Thank you

#2

Remember to format your code with the Screen Shot 2021-02-05 at 11.55.11 AM button and then paste your code text here: Screen Shot 2021-02-05 at 11.55.15 AM

That way more people can look at it and help you out quickly :slight_smile:

As a general debugging tip, note that you can always console log conditions:
console.log(4 < 5); to see what’s being triggered and what is not.

#3

Sorry, I will try next time.

and yes I’m just looking at trying to work out where is wrong by changing values and logging the output.

Thanks

#4

One of these is not quite like the other. If we change it so they’re in the same order, it’s a little more obvious:

if (age >= 18 && registeredEarly === true) {}
if (age => 18 && registeredEarly === true) {}

=> indicates an arrow function (you’ll learn about them later), not a greater than or equal to symbol >=. The age >= 18 works properly. You have two places to fix this, then it should function correctly. It’s a tricky error to catch.

I’m not sure why you’re putting a space between console.log and the (). They should be together like console.log('log statement here');