Assignemnt #12: Variabls and Names

Code

 /// Name: Sean Harrison
    /// Period: 7
    /// Program name: VariablesAndNames
    /// File Name: VariablesAndNames.java
    /// Date Finished: 9/15/2015
    
public class VariablesAndNames
{

    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
    
        int cars, drivers, passengers, cars_not_driven, cars_driven;
        double space_in_a_car, carpool_capacity, average_passengers_per_car;
        
        //this variable represents 100 cars to begin with
        cars = 100;
        //space in a car represents the number of people per ride.
        space_in_a_car = 4.0;
        //number of drivers they have
        drivers = 30;
        //number of passengers
        passengers = 90;
        //this calculation computes the remaining cars but subtracting drivers from cars
        cars_not_driven = cars - drivers;
        //this calculation accounts for the number of cars = drivers
        cars_driven = drivers;
        // this calculation allows the amount of passengers in total to be calculated
        carpool_capacity = cars_driven * space_in_a_car;
        // this stastic would be an average of passengers per each car
        average_passengers_per_car = passengers / cars_driven;
        
        
        System.out.println( "There are " + cars + " cars available." );
        System.out.println( "There are only " + drivers + " drivers available.");
        System.out.println( "There will be " + cars_not_driven + " empty cars today.");
        System.out.println( "We can transport " + carpool_capacity + " people today.");
        System.out.println( "We have " + passengers + " to carpool today." );
        System.out.println( "We need to put about " + average_passengers_per_car + " in each car." );
        // 1. If you only use a 4, in place of the 4.0 the java's 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point will round the number to a different placement of precision.
        // 2. A floating point number is derived from the fact there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point.
        // 3. = is allowing the java to assign an value for that int
        
        
    
    }
}


        
 

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