Does anyone know what bad operand types for binary operator mean in Java? and how to fix it

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This is the code thats bringing up the error

System.out.print( name + " "+ "(Aged" + " " + Age + ")" + "," + "your answer is " + first*Second );

Posted 21-May-15 6:11am

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Richard MacCutchan 21-May-15 13:52pm

You need to show the code preceding this that declares the variable types.

[no name] 21-May-15 13:57pm

See his previous question to this reposted uninformative snippet.

[no name] 21-May-15 13:58pm

Because first and Second are strings. You can't just multiply strings together.

Adamdew93 21-May-15 15:13pm

how would I convert them to integers?

virusstorm 21-May-15 15:49pm

Take a look at this article:
http://alvinalexander.com/java/edu/qanda/pjqa00010.shtml

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-21T21:35:00

Thanks to Wes for pointing out the original of this repost. I suggest you go to http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html[^] and start learning some of the basics.

Posted 21-May-15 21:35pm