So rather than doing what you did, what this exercise is trying to show you is that when you give a value to a variable, in this case myVar = 5, myVar now has 5 stored in it. Now whenever myVar is used ( meaning that it will be on the right side of the ‘=’ ) it will have the value of 5.
So myNum = myVar can now be thought to read “shove whatever is stored in myVar in to myNum”.
Right. Because they are asking to use the variables a and b. I just copied and pasted the example, because it’s bad mojo to just give you the answer hahaha.