Array not being assigned correct value.

Nov 30, 2015 at 7:32am
My objective in this assignment is to enter votes for each politician based on user input of votes. The part that is currently giving me problems is where I am trying to get the array percentageOfVotes to be assigned the correct value by having the (vote / totalVotes) * 100. Every time I run the program, the value for each percentageOfVotes always comes up as 0. Please explain why and how I can fix.

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  #include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;

//Function Prototypes
void printList();
int getTotalVotes();

int main()
{
	// Array declaration
	string candidate[5];
	candidate[0] = "Washington";
	candidate[1] = "Franklin";
	candidate[2] = "Benjamin";
	candidate[3] = "Lincoln";
	candidate[4] = "Kennedy";

	int vote[5];
	vote[0] = 0;
	vote[1] = 0;
	vote[2] = 0;
	vote[3] = 0;
	vote[4] = 0;

	//do while loop - receive votes
	char another;
	int x = 0;
	int totalVotes = 0;
	do
	{
		cout << "Enter votes for " << candidate[x] << ": ";
		cin >> vote[x];
		cout << "Another? (y or n) : ";
		cin >> another;
		totalVotes = totalVotes + vote[x];
		x++;
	} while (another == 'Y' || another == 'y' && x < 5);
	cout << endl << endl;

	// for loop - display output 
	double percentOfVote[5];
	percentOfVote[0] = vote[0] / totalVotes * 100;
	percentOfVote[1] = vote[1] / totalVotes * 100;
	percentOfVote[2] = vote[2] / totalVotes * 100;
	percentOfVote[3] = vote[3] / totalVotes * 100;
	percentOfVote[4] = vote[4] / totalVotes * 100;


	cout << setw(10) << "Candidate     " << setw(7) << "Votes  "
		<< setw(14) << "% of Total" << endl;
	cout << setw(10) << "----------    " << setw(7) << "-----      "
		<< setw(14) << "----------    " << endl;

	for (int y= 0; y < 5; y++)
	{
		cout << setw(10) << candidate[y] << "     " << setw(4) << vote[y]
			<< "   " << setw(12) << percentOfVote[y] << endl;
	}
	






	return 0;
}
Nov 30, 2015 at 7:59am
int vote[5]; // Change it to double
Nov 30, 2015 at 9:54pm
@TarikNeaj

Thank you.
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