Sit105 Critical Thinking And Problem Assessment Answers

Answer:

Task 1

IPO chart for tax calculation on salary

Task 2

Pseudo code to print average of eleven numbers and multiple occurrence of number 6

//Calculation Module

Declare an integer array ‘readEleven[]’

Initialize an integer variable ‘count’ with value 0

Initialize an integer variable ‘sum’ with value 0

Declare a float variable ‘average’

//A loop that reads eleven values for the declared array

Begin Loop

Read a value for array readEleven[] until count exceeds 11

If value read is equals to six

Increment value of count by 1

End If

End Loop

//Loop will run eleven times

Begin Loop

Set sum = sum + loop value of readEleven[]

End Loop

Set average = sum/11

Print “The average of eleven numbers is: "+avg

Print “The number 6 occurs "+count+" times

//Testing Module

Create an object to call Calculation Module

Call Calculation Module method with no argumentsEnd.

Task 3

A Pseudo Code that takes a positive integer as input and finds the average of all even between 1 and provided input

//Input Module

Initialize an integer variable ‘limit’ with value 0

Print “Please input a positive integer as the limit”

While the limit is not greater than 0 //While Loop to ensure validation

Read a value for variable limit

If limit is less than or equal to zero //Validation check

Print “Invalid entry: Please enter a positive integer”

 //Error Message printed if validation check failed

End If

End While

//Calculation Module

Initialize an integer variable ‘count’ with value 0

Initialize an integer variable ‘sum’ with value 0

Initialize an integer variable ‘i’ with value 1

Declare a float variable ‘average’

// this is a for loop that increments the value of ‘i’ by 1 every time until ‘limit’ has reached

Begin Loop

If (i mod 2 is equal to zero) //checks if number is even or odd

Set sum = sum + i

Set count = count + 1

End If

End Loop

Set average = sum/count

// Output Module

Print “The average of all even numbers is”+ average

// Testing Module

Create an object to call all modules

Call Input Module method with no arguments

Call Calculation Module with ‘limit’ as an argument

Call Display Module with ‘average’ as an argument

End.

Task 4

Pseudo Code to read some data from user and terminated when dummy value 999 entered and based on data excluding 999 print desired output.

//Input Module

Declare an integer array ‘dataArray[]’

Initialize first array field ‘dataArray[1]’ by value 0

Initialize an integer variable ‘i’ with value 1

Initialize an integer variable ‘count’ with value 0

Print “Enter number of children in different families and type 999 to terminate data input”

//While loop to ensure validation in the code

While value of dataArray[i] subtract 1 is not equal to 999

  Read the value for dataArray[i]

Set count = count + 1     //counter increment

If value at dataArray[i] is less than 0 or value is not an integer //Validation Check

Print “Invalid input: Please enter a number which is positive whole integer”

// Error Message printed if validation check failed

Set i=i-1

Set count = count - 1

   End If

Set i = i + 1

End While //End of while loop

//Calculation Module

Initialize an integer variable ‘zeroChildren’ with value 0

Initialize an integer variable .moreThanFour’ with value 0

Initialize an integer variable ‘j’ with value 1

//Set the first value of array to variable largest

Initialize an integer variable ‘largest’ with value dataArray[1]

//this is a for loop that increments the value of ‘j’ by 1 every time until count reaches max

Begin Loop

If value at dataArray[j] is equal to zero

  Set zeroChildren = zeroChildren + 1

End If

End Loop

//this is a for loop that increments the value of ‘j’ by 1 every time until count reaches max

Begin Loop

If value at dataArray[j] is greater than four

  Set moreThanFour = moreThanFour + 1

End If

End Loop

// this is a for loop that increments the value of ‘j’ by 1 every time until count -1 as this will exclude the dummy value 999

Begin Loop

If value at dataArray[j] is greater than largest

  Set largest = dataArray[j]

End If

End Loop

//Output Module

Print “The numbers of families with no children are: "+ zeroChildren

Print “The numbers of families with more than four children are:" +moreThanFour

Print "The largest number of children existing in any family is: " +largest

//Testing Module

Create an object to call all modules

Call Input Module method with no arguments

Call Calculation Module with dataArray and count as arguments

Call Display Module with zeroChildren, moreThanFour, largest as arguments

End.

Defining Diagram

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