java percentage output

[MathNerd]

Can someone help me, understand why my output displays 5350% instead of 53.5%

The Miles Per Gallons is : 5,350% gallons 

[keskiverto]

Can someone see your code that produces such output?

[MathNerd]

 What is the starting mileage? : 12657
 The ending mileage is? : 13513
 The starting gallon of gas in the tank is? : 20
 The ending gallon of gas in the tank is? : 4
 The miles traveld is : 856.0 
 The ending gas usage is : 16.0
 The Miles Per Gallons is : 5,350% gallons 
 The travel cost of gas will be : $45.60
 The car  MPG rating is : Amazing!
 Do you want to continue? (Yes/No):  

[chicofeo]

Nothing we can do by seeing your output. We need to see the code to help you better.

[keskiverto]

Nothing we can do

Well, we could point out that the unit that is produced by dividing unit mile by unit gallon is mile/gallon, not some percentage of a gallon. The output is thus strange, no matter what the values are.


Edit: We probably do guess what you do wrong (without seeing your code) because we are(?) psychics. Can you read the explanation (without us writing it)?

[Peter87]

Did you divide the distance traveled (856 miles) by the gas usage (16 gallons)?

856 miles / 16 gallons = 53.5 miles/gallon