calculating discount percents

Try typing these lines into the beginning of your program and see what happens:

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for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    cout << i/4 << endl;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    cout << i/4.0 << endl;

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everytime i do it how i think it should be done, the result is 0.

I'm very new at this, but from the research i have done, it seems like i should use a float command, but i am still confused by that.

Basically, it's going to be:

ItemPrice * ProductDiscountRate (which should be a %, like .25) = Subtoal

and then the Senior Discount is suppose to be Subtotal * SeniorDiscountRate

But both of those ways return a value of 0.


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Originally Posted by christinejones

everytime i do it how i think it should be done, the result is 0.

I'm very new at this, but from the research i have done, it seems like i should use a float command, but i am still confused by that.

Basically, it's going to be:

ItemPrice * ProductDiscountRate (which should be a %, like .25) = Subtoal

and then the Senior Discount is suppose to be Subtotal * SeniorDiscountRate

But both of those ways return a value of 0.


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You're allowed to start your own thread. :)

Let's see your code.