A customer in a store is purchasing five items. Design a program that asks for the price of each item, and then displays the subtotal of the sale, the amount of sales tax, and the total. Assume the sales tax is 6 percent.

P.S. must be shown in psuedocode.

Question

A customer in a store is purchasing five items.  Design a program that asks for the price of each item, and then displays the subtotal of the sale, the amount of sales tax, and the total.  Assume the sales tax is 6 percent.

P.S. must be shown in psuedocode.

anonymous · Answer

anyone there?

anonymous · Answer

migaki is there?

anonymous · Answer

Module TotalPurchase()
Declare Double amount,total
Declare TAX = .06
While i < 6
Display "Enter the price: "
Input amount
total = total + amount
i = i + 1
End While
Display "Subtotal is: " + total
Display "Tax is: " + (total*TAX)
Display "Total is: " + ((total*TAX) + total)
End Module

anonymous · Answer

can we take this piece by piece?

anonymous · Answer

I want to understand the logic behind what is being done

anonymous · Answer

In other words, how was each step done?

anonymous · Answer

you still there migaki?

anonymous · Answer

hey phi, do you know much about psuedocode?

anonymous · Answer

I am trying to understand the logic of the answer provided above

anonymous · Answer

let me see if I can somehow make the stone start rolling

anonymous · Answer

So to begin the process, we need to declare what we are talking about? In other words, we have to define the entire purchase, correct? I guess that is why module TotalPurchase() is used correct?

anonymous · Answer

phi you here?

anonymous · Answer

Yes, that's how you begin.
Losing connection..

anonymous · Answer

ahh, so what does the logic go from there?

anonymous · Answer

Are we declaring variables next? IF so, why is double amount included?

anonymous · Answer

and why is i<6?

anonymous · Answer

migaki, you still there or you having trouble with connection?

anonymous · Answer

anyone still here?

anonymous · Answer

Because you have 5 items, which is less than 6, hence i<6.

anonymous · Answer

ahh, so i= number of items, correct?

anonymous · Answer

Yup

anonymous · Answer

ok, so what other logic coudl you help me out with?

anonymous · Answer

why are we declaring double amount, total?

anonymous · Answer

migaki is still there?

woodrow73 · Answer

don't forget to initialize i to 0

anonymous · Answer

Double is declared because you are using a floating point variable i.e. Money (decimal point number) though the answer above isn't really pseudocode