functions

[Stephie22]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int getScore();
int findLowest();
float calcAverage();


int getScore()
{

int test1, test2, test3, test4, test5;

cout << "Enter the score of the 1st test: ";
cin >> test1;
cout << "Enter the score of the 2nd test: ";
cin >> test2;
cout << "Enter the score of the 3rd test: ";
cin >> test3;
cout << "Enter the score of the 4th test: ";
cin >> test4;
cout << "Enter the score of the 5th test: ";
cin >> test4;
cout << endl;

return (test1, test2, test3, test4, test5);

}

int findLowest(int LO, int test1, int test2, int test3, int test4, int test5)
{
(LO = test1);
if(test1 < LO)
{
LO = test1;
}

if(test2 < LO)
{
LO = test2;
}

if(test3 < LO)
{
LO = test3;
}

if(test4 < LO)
{
LO = test4;
}

if(test5 < LO)
{
LO = test5;
}

return LO;

}

int calcAverage(float test1, float test2, float test3, float test4, float average)
{
average =(test1 + test2 + test3 + test4) / 4;

}


int main()
{
int test1, test2, test3, test4, test5;
float averageScore;

for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
//Call getScore once for each test score to be input
test1 = getScore();
test2 = getScore();
test3 = getScore();
test4 = getScore();
test5 = getScore();

averageScore = calcAverage();
}

return 0;
}

this is my problem, im struggeling. something is wrong with my calcAverage function and after the 5th time i press in all 5 scores it is suppose to stop but keeps going on. to calculate the average i have to drop the lowest score and then calculate the average of only the four highest scores. can any1 help me with my prob?

[MrHutch]

There's a few problems here.

I'm not going to bombard you with them in one post, though. Let's go through them one-by-one.

When you're getting the scores, should you be using one function to get all of the scores? Or have a function that gets one score and use it five times? (At the minute, you're sort of doing both, although the first four scores in your function are pointless).

[Stephie22]

nah i should have a function that reads in 5 scores and calculate the average of them, when the lowest scores has been thrown out, then repeat that whole thing 4 more times.

so basically i read in 5 score, one of them will be lowest, then i only calculate the average of the last remaining scores, so that is four scores.

and the whole process must repeat 5 times

it needs to do the following:

my scores are 55, 67, 43, 78 and 80. so the lowest is 43 right? the average must be calculated of 55, 67, 78 and 80, and display the output