¿Is this program correct and well written?
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Hello everyone, I need some help, I've just written the following code but I don't know if this is written correctly according to the text. I hope you can see if there are mistakes.
Sorry, english is not my native language.
TEXT:
A computer provider offers 10% discount, if the product costs $ 1 million or more. Also, independently offers a 5% discount if the brand is ABACO. Determine how much will pay a client for purchasing a computer, including tax.
TAX=Product Price * 0.16
CODE:
clear all
clc
M = input('Enter de computer''s brand: ', 's');
P = input('Enter the computer''s price: ');
TAX = P*0.16;
ABACO = 0.05;
if M==ABACO;
PA=P-(P*ABACO)+TAX;
fprintf('The purchase price is %d.\n',PA)
elseif M~=ABACO;
PB=P+TAX;
fprintf('The purchase price is %d.\n',PB)
elseif P>=1000000;
PC=P-(P*0.1)+TAX;
fprintf('The purchase price is %d.\n',PC)
end
Thanks.
10 Comments
Arthur
on 20 Nov 2012
Any reason to assume that's not correct? Does it work?
This is homework. Your program is incorrect. Here is a pointer:
M == ABACO
makes no sense, you are comparing a string to a scalar. While that might have its uses, I am pretty sure that is not what you intended to do. You might want to look into strcmp
Ilham Hardy
on 20 Nov 2012
And there should be PD. If ABACO and P>=1e6
another hint:
doc strcmpi
Jan
on 20 Nov 2012
Do not "clear all", when you want to "clear variables". Removing all loaded functions from the memory is a brute waste of time.
Jimmy
on 20 Nov 2012
Sean de Wolski
on 20 Nov 2012
And using input will get old after about two iterations. Either use a function to accept inputs or use an inputdlg.
Jimmy
on 20 Nov 2012
Replace the calls to "input" with "inputdlg."
You could make things simpler by getting both inputs from the same dialog box. Just pass a cell array that contains your two fields to inputdlg, like so:
D = inputdlg({'Enter de computer''s brand:','Enter the computer''s price:'});
The data will be returned as a cell array of strings, so you'll have to get it in the form you're using:
M = D{1};
P = str2double(D{2});
To learn more about input dialog boxes:
help inputdlg
Jimmy
on 21 Nov 2012
Evan
on 21 Nov 2012
No prob. :)
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