diff --git a/dead-code/exercise-1.js b/dead-code/exercise-1.js
index 4d09f15fa9..209fadc9b8 100644
--- a/dead-code/exercise-1.js
+++ b/dead-code/exercise-1.js
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 // Find the instances of unreachable and redundant code - remove them!
 // The sayHello function should continue to work for any reasonable input it's given.
 
-let testName = "Jerry";
+let testName = "Aman";
 const greeting = "hello";
 
 function sayHello(greeting, name) {
-  const greetingStr = greeting + ", " + name + "!";
   return `${greeting}, ${name}!`;
-  console.log(greetingStr);
 }
 
-testName = "Aman";
-
 const greetingMessage = sayHello(greeting, testName);
 
 console.log(greetingMessage); // 'hello, Aman!'
diff --git a/dead-code/exercise-2.js b/dead-code/exercise-2.js
index 56d7887c4c..1d292f2f8c 100644
--- a/dead-code/exercise-2.js
+++ b/dead-code/exercise-2.js
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
 // The countAndCapitalisePets function should continue to work for any reasonable input it's given, and you shouldn't modify the pets variable.
 
 const pets = ["parrot", "hamster", "horse", "dog", "hamster", "cat", "hamster"];
-const capitalisedPets = pets.map((pet) => pet.toUpperCase());
-const petsStartingWithH = pets.filter((pet) => pet[0] === "h");
 
-function logPets(petsArr) {
-  petsArr.forEach((pet) => console.log(pet));
-}
+const petsStartingWithH = pets.filter((pet) => pet[0] === "h");
 
 function countAndCapitalisePets(petsArr) {
   const petCount = {};
diff --git a/practice-tdd/count.js b/practice-tdd/count.js
index 5518c57123..0b461dfd4b 100644
--- a/practice-tdd/count.js
+++ b/practice-tdd/count.js
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 export function countChar(stringOfCharacters, findCharacter) {
-  return 5
+  let count = 0;
+
+  for (const character of stringOfCharacters) {
+    if (character === findCharacter) {
+      count++;
+    }
+  }
+  return count;
 }
diff --git a/practice-tdd/count.test.js b/practice-tdd/count.test.js
index cb3aaae591..b9c70b3f68 100644
--- a/practice-tdd/count.test.js
+++ b/practice-tdd/count.test.js
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ test("should count multiple occurrences of a character", () => {
   expect(count).toEqual(5);
 });
 
+test("should count occurrences in a mixed string", () => {
+  const count = countChar("banana", "a");
+  expect(count).toEqual(3);
+});
+
+test("should return 0 for an empty string", () => {
+  const count = countChar("", "a");
+  expect(count).toEqual(0);
+});
+
+test("should return 0 when character does not occur", () => {
+  const count = countChar("hello", "z");
+  expect(count).toEqual(0);
+});
+
 // Scenario: No Occurrences
 // Given the input string `str`,
 // And a character `char` that does not exist within `str`.