Find Lowest Score & Average

Jun 28, 2013 at 8:25pm
I'm close to successfully compiling a program for my Intro to Programming class. At this point I could use all the help out there. Well I'm down to one error. Now it reads, the findLowest function call does not take three arguments but that is just what I have in the function header, I'm a little confused plus why aren't my cout statements displaying when they are before all the function calls. I figured at least those should read.
Still stuck

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//**************************************************
// Stephen Peterson
// Project 5: Lowest Score Drop
// this program will open a file named grades.txt, 
// (a list of test grades) drop the lowest score,
// and calculate the average
//**************************************************

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

// function prototypes
void getScore(int &scores, ifstream&);
void calcAverage(double &average);
int findLowest(int &min, ifstream&);

int main()
{
	int scores = 0;	  //variable for each of the scores
	int addScores = 0;	//variable for accumulating the scores
	int min = 0;	//variable for the lowest score
	int sumScores = 0;	//variable for the total of the number of scores
	int totalScores = 0;	//variable for the total of the scores
	double average = 0.0;	//variable for the average of remaining scores

	// open the file
	ifstream inputFile;
	inputFile.open("grades.txt");

	// detect if open file failed
	if (inputFile.fail())
	{
		cerr << "Error opening this file.\n\n";
		return 10;
	}
	else
	{
		// describe the program to the user
		cout << "This program will open a file named grades.txt\n"
			 << "containing a list of grades. It will drop the\n"
			 << "lowest grade then calculate and display the average.\n\n"
			 << "\tPress the ENTER key to begin." << endl;

		cin.get();
	}
	getScore(scores, inputFile);
	calcAverage(average);
		cout << "The average score in grades.txt is: " << average << endl;
		return 0;
}
/****************************************************
** getScore will retrieve numbers from 
** the grades.txt file and add them
*****************************************************/
void getScore(int &scores, ifstream& inputFile, int addScores, int sumScores)
{
	while (inputFile >> addScores)
	{	
		scores++;
		sumScores += addScores;
	}
}
/****************************************************
** calcAverage will calculate the average score 
** from the grades.txt file minus the lowest score
*****************************************************/
void calcAverage(double &average, int scores, int sumScores, int totalScores, int min)
{
	scores = 0;
	findLowest(min, scores, sumScores);
	average = (sumScores - min) / (totalScores - 1);
}
/****************************************************
** findLowest will identify the lowest score 
** from the grades.txt file
*****************************************************/
int findLowest(int &min, int scores, int sumScores)
{
		while (scores < sumScores)
		{
			if (scores < min)
			{
				min = scores;
				scores++;
				return min;
			}
		}
}
Jun 28, 2013 at 8:29pm
Now it reads, the findLowest function call does not take three arguments but that is just what I have in the function header

This could be your issue.
Make them match.

Same for the other functions.
Last edited on Jun 28, 2013 at 8:30pm
Jun 28, 2013 at 10:28pm
Thanks for the reply, I'll try that!
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