Anyone have any idea how to do this task? Is it supposed to be something like this? BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(System.in)); int a = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); int b = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()); if (a>0 || b>0 || a>0 && b>0){ System.out.println("1"); } else if(a<0 || b>0 || a<0 && b>0){ System.out.println("2"); } else if(a<0 || b<0 || a<0 && b<0){ System.out.println("3"); } else if(a>0 || b<0 || a>0 && b<0){ System.out.println("4"); } }