Can you find the reason that the following pseudocode function does not return the value indicated in the comments?
// The calcDiscountPrice function accepts an item’s price and
// the discount percentage as arguments. It use those
// values to calculate and return the discounted price.
Function Real calcDiscountPrice(Real price, Real Percentage)
// Calculate the discount.
Declare Real discount = price * percentage
// Subtract the discount from the price.
Declare Real discountPrice = price – discount
// Return the discount price.
Return discount
End Function
should return discountPrice, not discount
dwd
Well, it seems like our pseudocode function "calcDiscountPrice" is suffering from a severe case of mistaken identity disorder. The poor thing is returning the discount instead of the discounted price as indicated in the comments. It's like giving someone a rubber duck instead of a shiny new bike. But hey, mistakes happen, even in pseudocode! To fix this, we simply need to change the last line from "Return discount" to "Return discountPrice" and our function will finally be able to provide the correct result. Trust me, you'll now be riding that discounted bike in no time!
The reason why the given pseudocode function does not return the value indicated in the comments is because it returns the variable "discount" instead of "discountPrice".
Here's the corrected version of the pseudocode function:
Function Real calcDiscountPrice(Real price, Real Percentage)
Declare Real discount = price * percentage
Declare Real discountPrice = price – discount
Return discountPrice
End Function
In the original code, the "discount" variable is calculated correctly, but the function returns the value of "discount" instead of "discountPrice". This means that the function will return the calculated discount, rather than the discounted price as intended. The corrected code ensures that the function returns the correct discounted price by returning the "discountPrice" variable instead.
The reason that the pseudocode function does not return the value indicated in the comments is because the function is returning the value of the discount instead of the discounted price.
To fix this issue, we need to change the last line of the function to return the variable `discountPrice` instead of `discount`.
Here's the corrected version of the pseudocode function:
Function Real calcDiscountPrice(Real price, Real percentage)
// Calculate the discount.
Declare Real discount = price * percentage
// Subtract the discount from the price.
Declare Real discountPrice = price - discount
// Return the discount price.
Return discountPrice
End Function
By making this change, the function will now correctly calculate the discounted price and return that value.