Exercise 27 - Averaging

JavaScript
#1

At the end of exercise 27, Zed suggests “playing around” with chaining to (among other things), average the pet ages. I have been trying to do this, but have not yet cracked it. I tried writing a little “divide” function, and chaining it:

const divide = (num, arr) => {
return num / arr.length
}

let totalAges = pets.map(pet => pet.age)
.reduce((acc, age) => acc += age)
.divide(totalAges, pets)

But I get the following error:

ReferenceError: totalAges is not defined

I intuitively knew this was off somehow, but for the life of me I cannot figure this out. Any ideas?

#2

I guess I sort of rubber ducked this one by doing this:

const divide = (num, arr) => {
return num / arr.length
}

let avAges = pets.map(pet => pet.age)
.reduce((acc, age) => acc += age) / pets.length;

console.log(avAges)

However, I still feel like this wasn;t exactly what Zed has in mind? Zed? Any feedback on this? Thanks!

#3

Close…so you only have .map, .reduce, .filter, .search, and .forEach right? You can’t really just add your own .divide. That’s the first thing.

Next, you can call .reduce to produce a single number. You basically did that and then did / pets.length to get the average. So, you don’t need the divide() function anymore. That’s the end. There’s another more complicated way to do it where you don’t need to do a complete sum of the whole list, but instead can do it incrementally, but that’s some more involved math.