This is my first post on the site. I am in my third week of coding class and have completed everything but this problem. We are using ZyBooks. I have completed everything but this participation exercise. It isn't graded; however, it is driving me nuts. We are asked to write an expression that will print "in high school" if the value of user_grade is between 9 and 12 (inclusive).

Sample output with input: 10 in high school

This is what I have so far: I apologize if I am posting this incorrectly.

user_grade = int(input())
if user_grade >= 9 <= 12: print('in high school')
else: print('not in high school')

The code passes all tests until it runs input: 13. Then I receive this error:

Output differs. See highlights below.

Special character legend Your output: in high school

Expected output: not in high school

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4 Answers

I think your order of operations in the if is slightly wrong. Do you mean the following:

if 9 <= user_grade <= 12:

Because right now you are checking:

• is 9 smaller or equal to user_grade AND
• is 9 smaller or equal to 12

If you enter 13 then the first check will be True. But as the second check is only comparing 9 and 12 it is always true. And therefore you are never testing if user_input is smaller or equal to 12.

10

Your condition is wrong. You should use:

if 9 <= user_grade <= 12: print('in high school')

The order of the comparsion matters. user_grade >= 9 <= 12 means user grade is inferior or equals to 9 AND 9 is inferior or equals to 12.

Guess that it should more readable as follows:

def user_grade (input): if input >= 9 and input <= 12: print('in high school') else: print('not in high school')
user_grade(13)

The answer to the zybooks question is:

8 < user_grade < 13

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