Return boolean from method that calls an Int

Question

As per instructions: Write a static method that takes one integer as a formal parameter and returns a Boolean value of True if the parameter value is even and False if the it odd . It would seem my method must call an int instead of a boolean. With that being said I don't know how to return a boolean from a method that calls an int. I've tried this but it doesn't work.

EDIT - Language is JAVA. \\nEDIT 2 - For anyone looking at this in the future, I originally meant to type private static int result. Not private static boolean result. That mistake ended up fixing my code.

}
    private static boolean result(int userIn)
    {
        if (userIn % 2 == 0)
        {
            int yes = 1;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }

    }

Answer 1

Your original question didn't actually specify programming language, and it's not clear why you think you need to "call an int".

However in most C-descendent languages, and keeping with the style of your code quote, the following should work

private static boolean result(int userIn)
{
    return (userIn % 2) == 0;
}

The expression (userIn % 2) == 0 will evaluate to a boolean (or your language's representation of one).

It is a common anti-idiom for people learning to program to do something like:

if (some condition is true)
then
    return TRUE
else
    return FALSE

Most (modern) programming languages allow you to simply return the result of evaluating a boolean condition, or to assign it to a suitably typed variable.

Thus

boolean result = (myvariable >= 10)

has the same result as, but is much more readable than:

boolean result
if (myvariable >= 10)
    result = TRUE
else
    result = FALSE

This may be what the person who set the assignment is wanting you to learn from it.