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I cannot get User Stories 8 and 9 to pass with the getRandomQuestion and getRandomComputerChoice functions.

My code is kind of a mess, but I’m really just trying to understand why I am having a hard time accessing the keys and properties in the objects, ESPECIALLY when I have to access choices. I keep pulling the whole array of choices rather than it randomly choosing one.

Your code so far

const questions = [{
  category: "science",
  question: "Is science cool?",
  choices: ["yes", "no", "maybe"],
  answer: "yes"
}, {
  category: "geography",
  question: "Is geography cool?",
  choices: ["yes", "no", "maybe"],
  answer: "yes"
}, {
  category: "math",
  question: "Is math cool?",
  choices: ["yes", "no", "maybe"],
  answer: "yes"
}, {
  category: "english",
  question: "Is english cool?",
  choices: ["yes", "no", "maybe"],
  answer: "yes"
}, {
  category: "art",
  question: "Is art cool?",
  choices: ["yes", "no", "maybe"],
  answer: "yes"
}];

function getRandomQuestion(questions) {
  // Check if the array is empty
  if (questions.length === 0) {
    return null;
  }

  // Generate a random index within the array's length
  const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * questions.length);

  // Return the question property of the randomly selected object
  return questions[randomIndex].question;
}

function getRandomComputerChoice(questions, choices) {
   const questions = questions[choices];
   const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * questions.length);
   return questions[randomIndex];
}




console.log(getRandomQuestion(questions));
console.log(getRandomComputerChoice(questions));

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Welcome to the forum @rajones520

You have a syntax error in the console.

SyntaxError: unknown: Identifier ‘questions’ has already been declared. (41:33)
39 | }
40 |
41 | function getRandomComputerChoice(questions, choices) {
| ^
42 | const questions = questions[choices];
43 | const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * questions.length);
44 | return questions[randomIndex];

Happy coding