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recursionMystery3

Language/Type: JavaScript recursion mystery
Author: Melissa Medsker-Galloway (on 2016/11/18)

For each call to the following function, indicate what value is returned: 

function mystery3(n) {
    if (n <= 1) {
        return "*";
    } else if (n == 2) {
        return mystery3(n - 1) + "*";
    } else {
        return "(" + mystery3(n - 2) + ")";
    }   
}
mystery3(0);
mystery2(2);
mystery2(3);
mystery2(6);
mystery2(9);

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