Basic JavaScript: Logical Order in If Else Statements Help needed with passing one checkmark

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I’m supposed to make sure else if statements are in the right order, and they seemed to be so I ran the test and only one checkmark needs to be met, and I need help with that one, and what is orderMyLogic(7)?

Your code so far


function orderMyLogic(val) {
if (val < 10) {
  return "Less than 10";
} else if (val < 5) {
  return "Less than 5";
} else {
  return "Greater than or equal to 10";
}
}

orderMyLogic(7);

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Challenge: Logical Order in If Else Statements

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What happens when you run

console.log(orderMyLogic(3));

Is that what you expect?

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How do I reach this checkpoint orderMyLogic(4) should return "Less than 5"?

4

Did you try reordering the if statements?

5

I changed the location of the second if statement to the else statement below it and it didn’t the fix the issue, also peculiar then I changed the if (val < 10) to if (val > 10), it become the opposite the two checkpoints become wrong and the one I’m trying to fix become correct.

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What happens if (val < 10)? Remember that a return halts function execution.

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I changed if (val < 10) to if (val < 5), return = "Less then 5", and did the same thing with the ten condition. And it fixed the issue.

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8

Exactly. The else if statement was never being hit because (val < 10) also covers (val < 5).

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I know thank you, I need it to return “Less then five”, if it actually is less then five, not just less then ten, and changing the level between five and ten fixed the issue.

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