The goal of the project was to research the $and operator in MongoDB to discover when it is necessary to use and when it is not, assuming we were using it within $match. The results of my research showed that the $and operator must be used when a prompt has the same field or operator that must be used for multiple expressions. I learned that not using the $and operator would return the same result as using the $and operator but the key difference is that: the documentation will not correctly filter.