Pointless Statement

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A pointless statement is one that does not have any effect. That is$,$ the statement could be removed and that would not change the behaviour of the program.

The code below contains a pointless statement. Submit the provided code and click on the "Expand for Detailed Error Message" dropdown to determine where the Pointless Statement error occurs. Then, edit the code to resolve the error.

def function$($x: int, $y$ : int, $z$ : int$)$ int:

$""$ "Return $z$ multiplied by the sum of $x$ and $y.$

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$"""$

value $=x+y$

return value