Question

An old Arabian legend has it that a fabulously wealthy but unthinking king agreed to give a beggar 1 Shilling and triple the amount for 10 days. Using this information, write, compile, and run a C program that displays how much the king must pay the beggar on each day and the total earned by the beggar at the end of the 10day period. The output of your program should appear as follows:
Day Amount Owed Running total earned
1 1 1
2 3 4
3 27 31
. .
. .
10.

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int i, amountOwed = 1, totalEarned = 1;
printf("Day Amount Owed Running total earned\n");
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
{
printf("%3d %13d %22d\n", i + 1, amountOwed, totalEarned);
amountOwed *= 3;
totalEarned += amountOwed;
}
return 0;
}