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Thread: boolean method not checking to see if within given tolerance to be true.

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    Default boolean method not checking to see if within given tolerance to be true.

    public boolean checkAnswer(String response) {
    		String Answer = "";
    		double NumAnswer = Double.parseDouble(response);
    		double CorrectAnswer = Double.parseDouble(super.getAnswer());
    		if (NumAnswer == CorrectAnswer - tolerance
    				|| NumAnswer == CorrectAnswer + tolerance
    				|| NumAnswer == CorrectAnswer) {
    			Answer = super.getAnswer();
    		}
    		return response.equals(Answer);
    	}

    This method is within a subclass for a math question. checkAnswer is supposed to take an answer in string form, converts it to a
    double, get the correct answer in string form from the super class Question, converts that to a
    double, and return true if NumAnswer is within the indicated tolerance to the CorrectAnswer. The tolerance i set up to be a private double and constructed to of them, one with the set tolerance of 0.01 and the other that accepts a double parameter.

    The method works in returning true or false but I can't seem to understand why my if statement doesn't return true when the given string response falls within the tolerance. I have tried giving it an else statement as well but that also seems to not work.


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    Default Re: boolean method not checking to see if within given tolerance to be true.

    You should follow Java coding conventions and begin variables with lowercase letters like answer, numAnswer etc: your code will be more readable that way.

    If you are checking for a result *within* some tolerance shouldn't you be using < and > somewhere? The result should be bigger than some lower limit and less than some upper one.

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    Default Re: boolean method not checking to see if within given tolerance to be true.

    pbrockway2 is correct. You should be checking if NumAnswer is greater than or equal to CorrectAnswer-tolerance AND NumAnswer is less than or equal to CorrectAnswer+tolerance.
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