Basic JavaScript - Return a Value from a Function with Return

[indwomt]

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Hi everyone! So I passed this section, but I am seeking clarity on one part of the solution. What is the purpose of adding “(num)” at the end of my function’s title? Is Javascript able to always inetpret this as a numerical value will be used in the function, or is it just a placeholder to make the code easier to understand?

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function timesFive(num) {
return num * 5;
}

const answer = timesFive(5)

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Return a Value from a Function with Return

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[JeremyLT]

@indwomt

function timesFive(num) {
return num * 5;
}

num is just the name of the argument. You could name it whatever you want

function timesFive(puppies) {
return puppies * 5;
}

const answer = timesFive(5)

Though, it makes sense to pick a name that agrees with the logic. In this case, you will be multiplying by 5, so the input will end up being some sort of number, so you might as well call it number.