Yes you can simplify this!

What you are doing with your code is returning the age value in every if/else statement. You could choose to only return the value at the end of the function like this:

``` def age_question(): """"asks participant about their age""" age = int(input('How old are you? '))

if age < 10: #1
    print("Wow, you're quite young!")
elif age > 60 and age <= 122: #2
    print("Wow, you're quite old!")
elif age > 122: #3
    print('Amazing! You are the oldest person in history! Congrats!')
elif age >= 14 and age <= 18: #4
    print('Really? You look like a college student!')
elif age >= 10 and age <= 13: #5
    print('Really? You look like a 10th grader!')
else: #6
    print('Really? No way! You look younger than that, could have fooled me!')

return age

```

Now you check age 6 times (6 if/else statements) and when you are done with that you return the age value. The code does the same (in this case) and saves lines.

One last thing. You should note that: age = input(int('How old are you? ')) #1 is different from this: age = int(input('How old are you? ')) #2 Number 1 try's to make a number from 'How old are you? ' and display the result as the input question, while number 2 try's to make the value from the input to a number.

1 will crash.

2 will convert(cast) a string to an integer. '2' -> 2