created 07/29/99

Chapter 14 Programming Exercises


Exercise 1 --- Check Charge

A bank has the following rule: if a customer has more than $1000 dollars in their checking account or more than $1500 dollars in their savings account, then there is no service charge for writing checks. Otherwise there is a $0.15 charge per check. Write a program that asks for the balance in each account and then writes out the service charge.


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Exercise 2 --- Tire Pressure

The front tires of a car should both have the same pressure. Also, the rear tires of a car should both have the same pressure (but not neccessarily the same pressure as the front tires.) Write a program that reads in the pressure of the four tires and writes a message that says if the inflation is OK or not.

Input right front pressure
38
Input left front pressure
38
Input right rear pressure
42
Input left rear pressure
42

Inflation is OK

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Exercise 3 --- More Tire Pressure

Its not enough that the pressures are the same in the tires, but the pressures must also be within range. Modify the program in exercise 1 so that it also checks that each tire has a pressure between 35 and 45. If a tire is out of range, write out an error message immediately, but continue inputting values and processing them:

Input right front pressure
32
Warning: pressure is out of range

Input left front pressure
32
Warning: pressure is out of range

Input right rear pressure
42
Input left rear pressure
42

Inflation is BAD
If there have been any warnings, write out a final error message. (To do this, declare a boolean variable goodPressure that is initialized to true but is changed to false when an out of range tire is first found.)

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Exercise 4 --- The Pressure is Building

Tires don't have to have exactly the same pressure. Modify the program for exercise 2 so that the front tires can be within 3 psi of each other, and the rear tires can be within 3 psi of each other.

Input right front pressure
35
Input left front pressure
37
Input right rear pressure
41
Input left rear pressure
44

Inflation is OK

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end of the exercises