Question

How streamlined is this process?

Goal: Compute for a student’s quiz average score based on a total of 5 quizzes, with a rule of “cancel the lowest quiz score”.

Answer 1

Step 1: Request the list of quiz scores. Call it ScoreList.
Step 2: Arrange ScoreList in ascending order.
Step 3: Call the first element FirstElt.
Step 4: Let Sum and Count be the sum and count, respectively, of the elements aside from FirstElt.
Step 5: Divide Sum by Count. Call the result Mean.
Step 6: Display Mean.