Sven Eriksson

Hi Ashley

Easiest would be something like this:

System.out.print("What is the y coordinate? "); double y = console.nextDouble(); if (x < 0.0) { if (y < 0.0) { negatives = 2; } else { negatives = 1; } } else { if (y < 0.0) { negatives = 1; } else { negatives = 0; } } System.out.println("negatives = " + negatives); return x + y + negatives;

Hopefully that might help some, but you could also write it in another method and call to it
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