Consider this method that prints a page number on the left or right side of a page:

 if (page % 2 == 0) { System.out.println(page); } else { System.out.println("........................" + page); } 

Introduce a method isEven with the return type boolean to make the condition in the if statement easier to understand.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class HelperMethods { public static void printPageNumber(int page) { if (isEven(page)) { System.out.println(page); } else { System.out.println("...................." + page); } }

/* Your code goes here */

public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); int page = in.nextInt(); printPageNumber(page); } }