# Adding Multiple Variables

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-variables/192618>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-variables/192618 "2006-06-29T19:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![alemieux34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@alemieux34](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alemieux34)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-variables/192618/1 "2006-06-29T19:59:07Z")

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Can you add multiple variables together to get a total?

total = score1 + score2 + score3;

This code only concatenates the scores, it doesn’t add them up.