What if Pascal doesn't consider else?

Question

Pascal

I am writing a simple program:
Program ferma;
const a=9;
begin
if Odd(a) then write (a:2) else write (a*3);
end.
Gives the answer 9, as if not seeing "else write (a*3)" . Where is the mistake? What to do?

Answer 1

9 is odd. That's right.