Answer to Question #162422 in Algorithms for Sid

Question

An algorithm is written to take as input the number of miles travelled. The algorithm works out how much this will cost, with each mile costing £0.30 in petrol. If this is greater than £10.00 then it is reduced by 10%.

miles = input("Enter the number of miles)

cost = 0.3

if cost = 10 then

cost = cost * 0.1

endif

print(cost)

There are four errors in this algorithm. Identify each error and correct it.

Answer 1

miles = input("Enter the number of miles: ")
cost = 0.3 * miles      
if cost > 10 then        
   cost = cost - cost * 0.1 
endif
print(cost)