return not working properly?

[rockclimber9up]

Hi, I am having trouble with returning a parameter from one of my functions. Can someone help?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int quotient(int numerator,int denomenator,int answer)
{
    answer = (numerator/denomenator);
    
    return answer;
}

int main()
{
    int numerator = 1;
    int denomenator = 1;
    int answer = 1;
    
    cout << "Enter numerator: ";
    cin >> numerator;
    cout << "Enter denomenator: ";
    cin >> denomenator;
    
    quotient(numerator,denomenator,answer);
    
    cout << answer;
}

When I run the program, I get an answer of 1 no matter what, even though I am returning answer from my function. Help?!

[Moeljbcp]

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int quotient(int numerator,int denomenator)
{
    int answer;
    answer = (numerator/denomenator);
    
    return answer;
}

int main()
{
    int numerator = 1;
    int denomenator = 1;
    int answer;
    
    cout << "Enter numerator: ";
    cin >> numerator;
    cout << "Enter denomenator: ";
    cin >> denomenator;
    
    answer = quotient(numerator,denomenator);
    
    cout << answer;
}

This is the correct way to return values. Although your quotient will *always* be an integer, because you specified it as such. (-1, 0, 1, 2, [...]) If you want to have it return a decimal value (1.5, 1.0251, ...) use type "double" instead of type "int" for all your values.

[rockclimber9up]

Yup, I want it to truncate, thanks though it works now!