# Please help for very basic coding task

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/please-help-for-very-basic-coding-task/12009>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/please-help-for-very-basic-coding-task/12009 "2019-06-12T06:12:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![myhatzulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@myhatzulu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/myhatzulu)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/please-help-for-very-basic-coding-task/12009/1 "2019-06-12T06:12:31Z")

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It keeps escaping me on how to do the following

```auto
void setup(){
  size(800,400);
  rect (width/2,height/2, ? , random(30,80));
}

```

I need to make the figures body width twice the randomized body height, I don’t know how though.

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**Author:** ![myhatzulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@myhatzulu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/myhatzulu)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/please-help-for-very-basic-coding-task/12009/2 "2019-06-12T07:03:26Z")

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actually the problem is solved now, my dumb self forgot to use variables for rectheight

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**Author:** ![madscientist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@madscientist](https://discourse.processing.org/u/madscientist)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/please-help-for-very-basic-coding-task/12009/3 "2019-07-15T23:19:35Z")

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You’re not dumb, we all do that.