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/ 12 Years ago, mon, august 27, 2012, 12:00:00
I'm working on a codecademy.com lesson with instructions to write the calculateTotal function below. When I click run, it's returning NaN. Anyone know what's wrong with the calculateTotal function as I wrote it that's making it return NaN. Note, I understand that NaN means not a number...
// runner times
var carlos = [9.6,10.6,11.2,10.3,11.5];
var liu = [10.6,11.2,9.4,12.3,10.1];
var timothy = [12.2,11.8,12.5,10.9,11.1];
// declare your function calculateTotal here
var calculateTotal = function(raceTimes){
var totalTime;
for(i = 0; i < raceTimes.length; i++){
totalTime += raceTimes[i];
return totalTime;
}
};
var liuTotal = calculateTotal(liu);
console.log(liuTotal);
Note, many of the people answering this question have said that var totalTime has to be set to O. However, in the next codecademy lessson, the author writes a function with totalTime not set to anything and it works
var calculateAverage = function (raceTimes) {
var totalTime;
for ( i = 0; i < raceTimes.length; i++ ) {
totalTime = (totalTime || 0) + raceTimes[i];
}
// assign variable averageTime
var averageTime = totalTime / raceTimes.length;
return averageTime;
};
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