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Save returned value from a function to a variable

  

<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script type = "text/javascript" >

function addNumbers() {
    firstNum = 4;
    secondNum = 8;
    result = firstNum + secondNum;
    return result;
}
result = 0;
alert(result);
sum = addNumbers();
alert(result);

</script>
</body>








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