As you know, "hardcoding" is when you put numbers in the code that might change. In this CalcTotal problem, several numbers could have been hardcoded $($but shouldn't have been$).$ For example, we could code our encouragement threshold correctly, as follows:

encThresh $=$ Range$("$B$24").$Value

Or we could hardcode it $($incorrectly$),$ as follows:

encThresh $=10$

This is just one example of a way to hardcode, and the variable names are not important. Did you hardcode the encouragement threshold, or did you include it dynamically in your code by referring to its cell$/$range value?

I hardcoded encouragement threshold by including the actual number in my code.

I dynamically coded encouragement threshold by only referring to its cell$/$range value on the spreadsheet.