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#1

https://app.dataquest.io/m/1010/conditional-statements-practice-problems/16/finding-the-pair

Hi,

In this question, why is the answer not include other results like 39 and 61?

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#2

As we are looping through the end it will always give last combination. If you print value1 and value2 you can see several possibility

for x in values:
    for y in values:
        if x + y == 100 and x != y:
            value1 = x
            value2 = y
            print(value1, value2)

Output

85 15
85 15
39 61
61 39
15 85
15 85
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#3

Thanks for the answer Dishin.

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#4

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#5

after sorting it out, I’ve made a solution that lists all the pairs:

empty_list = []
for i in values:
    for c in values:
        if i + c == 100 and i != c:
            empty_list.append([i, c])
#6

Hi! For me it happened the same, i recalled only one pair of numbers because i wrote the print code outside the loop. If you print inside the loop it shows you all the combinations. Could you explain why? thank you!
Also, in the beginning i started with value1= and value2= instead of value1=None and value2=None, is this correct? the answer seems to be ok but i need to know if my solution was ok regarding to the syntax. Thanks thanks thanks!

#7

Hi! For me it happened the same, i recalled only one pair of numbers because i wrote the print code outside the loop. If you print inside the loop it shows you all the combinations.

#8

Hi there!

I noticed that the solution initialises value1 and value2 as None . Is this not required?

Many thanks,
Andrea

#9

This is not required. You can code without initializing the variables as None and get the result.

values = [72, 50, 48, 50, 7, 66, 62, 32, 33, 75, 30, 85, 6, 85, 82, 88, 30, 32, 78, 39, 57, 96, 45, 57, 61, 10, 62, 48, 32, 96, 75, 15, 50, 50]

for x in values:
    for y in values:
        if x + y == 100 and x != y:
            value1 = x
            value2 = y
            print(value1, value2)
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