CSC100AA and CIS162AB

Ch 2 Program 4 - Flash Drive Price

The following concepts are covered:

• Different data types

• Defining variables, and choosing valid variable names.

• Writing mathematical expressions

• Use of cout statement to display output to the console.

• Formatting the output using escape sequences (/n, /t, etc.)

Please adhere to the Standards for Programming Assignments and the C++ Coding Guidelines.

Submit the following:

Source code with comments

Test output listed as comments at the end of your program

FlashDrivePrice.cpp

An electronics company makes 64 gigabyte USB flash drives that cost them $8.00 a piece to produce. Write a program to determine how much the company should sell them for if it wants to make a 35 percent profit. Display the actual cost and the selling cost.

Step1: Input - Define variables to store

• cost of a single 64 gigabyte USB flash drive

• earn a 35 percent profit

• selling cost of the USB flash drive

Step 2: Calculations - Perform calculations to determine the selling price of the USB so as to earn a 35 percent profit.

Step 3: Output - Display the actual cost and the selling cost to the console.

Sample output:

To have a 35% profit, the selling price of the USB

that costs $8 to produce should be $10.8

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