Question

identify the purpose and components of the method represented in the pseudocode below:

num calAverage(num total)

declarations

num average

set average = total/2

return average

Answer 1

The purpose of the function calAverage is to calculate and return the average of two numbers.

The sum of the two numbers is passed to the function as a parameter total.

The variable average is declared in the function and assigned a value obtained by dividing total by 2.

The function then returns average.