Please help and kindly explain

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


// Setup
var a;
var b = 2;

// Only change code below this line



Assign the value 7 to variable a.

Assign the contents of a to variable b.


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**Challenge:** Storing Values with the Assignment Operator

**Link to the challenge:**
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/storing-values-with-the-assignment-operator
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What have you tried? What do you have questions about?

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Everything, What does Assign contents of a to b mean?

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After you assign a value to a, that value can be referred to as "the contents of a".

var a = 87; // the variable a now contains 87
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so in this case I should type b = 7; but when I do it gives error and the correct answer is b = a, but it should say b = 7 because it assign the contents of a?

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That would just be assigning 7 to b. You need to use the variable a to assign it’s value to b. If you look at the example code in the lesson, it explains how to assign one variable to the value of another.

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Okay thank you very much, I really appreciate your help, I got it now.

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Congratulations. Happy coding!