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Aurix (3)
Can't seem to figure out what is causing this error, any help would be greatly appreciated.

error C2660: 'getScoresAndCalculateTotal' : function does not take 1 arguments




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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>

using namespace std;



string getStudentName();
int getNumberExams();
int getScoresAndCalculateTotal();
double calculateAverage(int, int);
char determineLetterGrade(double);
void displayAverageGrade(string, double, char);



int main(void)
{

//Declare variables

	string name;
	string dummy;
	int exams = 0;
	int score = 0;
	int total = 0;
	double average = 0;
	char letter;


	getStudentName();
	exams = getNumberExams();
	total = getScoresAndCalculateTotal(exams);
	average = calculateAverage(total, exams);
	letter = determineLetterGrade(average);
	displayAverageGrade(name, average, letter);



	return 0;

}

string getStudentName()
{

	string dummy;
	string name;

	getline(cin, dummy);
	cout << "\nPlease enter the student's name: \n";
	getline(cin, name);

	return name;

}

int getNumberExams()
{

	int exams;

	cout << "Please enter the number of exams taken by the student in the course: \n";
	cin >> exams;

	return exams;

}

int getScoresAndCalculateTotal(int exams)
{

	int score = 0;
	int total = 0;

	cout << "Enter the exam scores:";

	for (int i = 1; i <= exams; i++)
	{
		cout << "\nExam " << i << ": ";
		cin >> score;
		total = total + score;
	}

	return total;

}

double calculateAverage(int total, int exams)
{

	double average = 0;

	average = total / exams;

	return average;

}

char determineLetterGrade(double average)
{

	char letter;

	if (average >= 90)
		letter = 'A';
	else if (average >= 80)
		letter = 'B';
	else if (average >= 70)
		letter = 'C';
	else if (average >= 60)
		letter = 'D';
	else
		letter = 'F';

	return letter;

}

void displayAverageGrade(string name, double average, char letter)
{

	cout << endl << endl;
	cout << "Student Name: " << name << endl;
	cout << "Average: " << average << endl;
	cout << "Letter Grade Earned: " << letter;
	cout << endl << endl;

}
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Zhuge (4664)
Please use code tags around your code.
http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/z13hAqkS/

The error is self-explanatory; you are trying to call getScoresAndCalculateTotal(), a function that takes no arguments, with an argument. If you meant it to take arguments, you should fix your prototype.
Aurix (3)
Thanks, I think I got the issue.
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