RE: [Dev-C++] Fw: C++ Program Help Please

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

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  Subject: [Dev-C++] Fw: C++ Program Help Please


  I'm having a trouble understanding how to do this assignment.

  We are supposed to send a character constant as areference parameter to
the function GetUserInput six times - to get Odometer

  A character constant: 'a'. As an argument to a function f() which accepts
a reference of a char. f('a').


   Start, Odometer End, Hours Start, Hours End, Minutes Start and Minutes
End.  The instructor said that I do not have to initialize (as in (//get
total mileage) StartReading, but to just send the string.  I don't
understand the syntax for doing this or how to use it in the output
statement.

  I am also confused about how to do the Average Speed function.  Since we
are required to convert the total time of the trip into minutes, someone
could travel a hundred miles in two hours, but then it would be 100/120
which doesn't make sense.  The function

  I did not understand it. I think your time is 120 minutes here.


   for turning minutes into hours and minutes also gets an error for using
ints.  However, we don't want a float for this since we have to output the
times in hour:minute format.


  Suppose you have traveled 169 minutes. 169/60 is the hours of the journet
and 169%60 is the rest of the minutes.
  So in this example:

  169/60=2 hours
  169%60= 49 minutes.

  Total time: 2 hours + 49 minutes.

  Ioannis