I'm a first year student and a missed a lot for this chapter and really dont know where to even start.
I have to write the pseudocode for this using Notepad:
A company sales manager requires a sales analysis of the two products on offer at the end of the month.
The company employs five salespeople.
Input values for each salesperson are name, number, gender, and total units sold for the month, for each product (one and two).
The salary of each salesperson is strictly commission-based. Each salesperson earns a basic commission calculated as 12.5% of his/her total sales.
If a salesperson sells more than R1 000 of product two, he or she receives an additional 10% commission on product two. If not, commission for sales of product two is reduced to 5% (i.e. instead of receiving the basic 12.5% commission for sales of product two, a penalty is paid).
If a saleswoman sells more than R500 of product one, she receives a bonus of R100.
An added bonus of R750 is given to each salesperson whose total commission is more than R6 000.
Each employee receives a printed pay-slip showing all the employee details, gross pay, all the deductions and/or additions, and the net pay.
The unit prices for the two products are as follows:
o Product 1: R250
o Product 2: R175
At the end of processing, the manager wants to know:
The total number of items sold.
The total number of women and the total number of men that received a bonus.
The number of women employed by the company.
Total salary paid out (i.e. total nett pay)
To write pseudocode for this scenario, you can follow these steps:
1. Start by declaring variables and constants:
- Declare constants for the unit prices of Product 1 and Product 2 (250 and 175 respectively).
- Initialize variables for the total number of items sold, total number of women with a bonus, total number of men with a bonus, total number of women employed, and total salary paid out.
2. Initialize a loop to input values for each salesperson:
- Start a loop to iterate through the five salespeople.
- Within the loop, prompt the user to input the name, number, gender, total units sold for both Product 1 and Product 2 for each salesperson.
- Calculate the basic commission for each salesperson as 12.5% of their total sales.
- Check if the salesperson sold more than R1,000 of Product 2:
- If yes, calculate an additional 10% commission for Product 2.
- If no, calculate a reduced commission of 5% for Product 2 (penalty).
- Check if the salesperson is a woman and sold more than R500 of Product 1:
- If yes, add a bonus of R100 to their commission.
- Check if the total commission for the salesperson is more than R6,000:
- If yes, add an additional bonus of R750 to their commission.
- Calculate the net pay by subtracting any relevant deductions from the gross pay.
- Increment the total number of items sold by the salesperson's total units sold.
- Increment the counts for the total number of women with a bonus, total number of men with a bonus, and total number of women employed if applicable.
- Add the salesperson's net pay to the total salary paid out.
3. After the loop ends, output the results:
- Print the total number of items sold.
- Print the total number of women and the total number of men that received a bonus.
- Print the number of women employed by the company.
- Print the total salary paid out (net pay).
Remember that pseudocode is a way of expressing a solution in human-readable format, so the above steps outline the logic without following any specific programming syntax. You can take these steps and convert them into actual pseudocode in Notepad by using plain English statements and relevant variables.