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In this challenge we have to fix four bugs, it's an easy challenge but does require some attention.
The first three lines initialize variables A, B and C, the value for A is unknown 😈. The 4th line declares R using the equation:
(💚 + B + 💎) / 3;
This line contains the bugs 💚 and 💎, these are most likely going to be A and C respectively (B in the middle spoils it). The formula appears to be computing the average value of three variables.
Finally we have the buggy line:
R = 🚀.floor(R);
The commonly used function floor reveals that 🚀 must be JavaScript's Math object.
To find our remaining bug 😈, we must reverse engineer R, which we know should equal to 4 (given). This can also be written as:
4 = (A+1+5)/3 with A being the unknown 😈.
After rewriting this equation we find that A = (4*3)-1-5 = 6. But 6 is not an available answer to select, so we must use another value for 😈. Keep in mind that the value R is being floor-rounded on the last line, so basically 😈 can be any value as long R = 4. The acceptable answers are 7 and 8, because:
(7+1+5)/3 = 4.333 and (8+1+5)/3 = 4.666
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