FLOW CHART PRACTICE QUESTIONS

FLOW LINES
Arrows are used to connect the
steps in a flowchart, to show the
flow or sequence of the problem
solving process
START/END This symbol is used to represent the
beginning
(start), the termination (end) or halt
(pause) in the
program logic.
INPUT/OUTPUT It represents information entering or
leaving the
system, such as customer order
(input) and
servicing (output).
PROCESS Process symbol is used for
representing
arithmetic and data movement
instructions. It can
represent a single step or an entire
sub process
with in a larger process.
DECISION
A diamond with two branches is
used to show the decision making
step in a flowchart. A question is
specified in the diamond. The next
step in the sequence is based on the
answer to the question which is
“Yes” or “No”.

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Q1 What do you mean by term flow chart? Draw a program flow

chart to find the sum of first 50 odd numbers.

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Q2 Draw a flow chart to compute and print Income-tax,
Surcharge and Education cess on the income of a person, where income is
to be read from terminal and tax is to be calculated as per the following
rates:

Slab Rate
`
(i) 1 to 1,00,000 No tax
(ii) 1,00,001 to 1,50,000 @ 10% of amount above 1,00,000
(iii) 1,50,001 to 2,50,000 ` 5,000 + 20% of amount above 1,50,000
(iv) 2,50,001 onwards ` 25,000 + 30% of amount above
2,50,000
Surcharge @ 10% on the amount of total tax, if the
income of a person exceeds ` 10,00,000
Education cess 2% on the total tax

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Q3 An electric supply company charges the following rates for

its domestic consumers :
No. of unit consumed Charges/unit
For the first 200 units 1.60
For the next 300 units 2.10
Over 500 units 3.90
Surcharge @ 20% of the bill is to be added to the charges.

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Draw a Flow chart for the above, which will read the consumer number
and the number of units consumed and print out the total charges with the
consumer number and the unit consumed.

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Q4 A University has 3,000 students. These students are divided
in four categories:
(i) B. Tech
(ii) M. Tech
(iii) M.S.
(iv) Ph.D.
Draw a flow chart for finding the percentage of the students in each category.

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Abbreviations :
ST = Student, PS1 to PS4 = Percentage,S1 to S4 = No. of Student,
T = True, F = False

Q5 An electric supply company charges the following rates from

its consumers :
No. of unit consumed Charges/unit

For the first 200 units 2.50

For the next 300 units 3.50
Over 500 units 5.00

Computer database of the company has the following information :

) Consumer Name
) Address
) Unit consumed
) Bill date
) Payment date

If the consumer pay his bill within 15 days from the bill date, 10% discount
is given. If he makes the payment after 15 days from the bill date, 5%
surcharge is levied. Draw a Flow chart to calculate the net amount of the bill
for each consumer and print it.

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Q6 A bicycle shop in a city hires bicycles by the day at different

rates for different models as given below :
Model No. Hire rate per day

Model No. 1 14.00

Model No. 2 12.00
Model No. 3 10.00

In order to attract customers, the shopkeeper gives a discount on the number

of days a bicycle is hired for. The policy of discount is as given below :
No. of days Discount rate
(%)
1-5 0.00
6-10 8
11 and over 15

For every bicycle hired, a deposit of ` 30.00 must be paid.

Develop a flow chart to print out the details for each customer such as name
of the customer, bicycle model number, number of days a bicycle is hired for,
hire charges, discount and total charges including deposits.

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Q7 A Book publisher offers discount to customers on the basis

of customer type and number of copies ordered as shown below :

Customer type Number of Copies Ordered % of Discount

Book Seller More than 10 25

Less than or equal to 10 15
More than 5 20

Library Less than or equal to 5 10

Customer number, name , type, book number, number of copies ordered and
unit price are given as input. Draw a flow chart to calculate the net amount
of the bill for each customer and print it.
The above is to be carried out for 50 customers.

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Q8 For computing custom duty, the imported items are

classified into 4 categories. The rate of duty to be levied on each category
of items is given below :
Category Class of goods %custom duty on the
(K) value of goods (V)
1 Food and beverages 10
2 Textile and leather good 15
3 Heavy machinery 20

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4 Luxury items 40

Draw a flowchart to compute the custom duty.

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Q9 Draw a flow chart to print the square of odd numbers between
10 to 50 and also print the sum of their square.

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Q10 Top town Municipality, is levying annual House Tax, as

per following rules:
Size of House in Sq. House tax rate per
Metre Square Metre

Less than 100 Nil

Upto Next 400 10
Upto Next 500 20
More than 1000 25

There is a surcharge of 5% of the value of House Tax. Taking into account

the above factors, draw a flow chart to compute appropriate total House Tax
including surcharge for any one house.

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FOR START/ STOP AASDADA

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Q11 A book publisher of Information Technology offers discount
to its customers on the basis of customer type as detailed below:

Customer Type Discount

Book Seller 30%
Library 20%
Student 10%

Further if number of copies purchased is more than 20, then additional

discount of 5% is allowed irrespective of customer type. Number of books,
unit price of each book and customer type are given as input.

Draw a flow chart to calculate the net amount after all discount and print
customer type, number of copies and net amount.

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Q12 A Housing Society in a newly developed Smart City has

provided several advanced security systems to each house in that city.
Based on the value of these advanced security systems installed in each
house, the Society has divided all the houses in four categories and fixed the
criteria for annual maintenance charges as under:

House Category Maintenance charges as % of value of

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advanced security systems installed at house

A 8%
B 6%
C 4%
D 3%

In addition to above there is a service tax @ 12.36% on the amount of

maintenance charges. Considering house number and value of advanced
security system installed, as input, draw a flow chart to have printed output
as house number, maintenance charges, service tax and the total amount to
be paid by each house owner.

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Q13 ABC Limited is a software development company, which

appointed 50 software engineers in August’ 2014 at a monthly salary of
` 30,000. All these engineers shall be entitled for an increment in their
monthly salary after six months. The increment on present monthly salary
shall be based on their performance to be evaluated on a 100 marks scale
as per details given below:

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– Performance Marks < 70, then increment shall be 10% of present salary.
– 70 # Performance marks < 80, then increment shall be 20% of present
salary.
– Performance Marks $ 80, then increment shall be 30% of present salary.
Draw a Flow-Chart to enable to print the details like name of the engineer,
performance marks, monthly increment amount and revised monthly salary
for each of these 50 engineers.

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Let us define the variables first:

PM: Performance Marks
RESAL: Revised Monthly Salary,
INCAMT: Increment Amount,
NAME: Name of Engineer,
N: Pointer to track number of Engineers,
INCREMENT = 0

Q14 A car shop in a city hires car by the day at different rates for different
models as given below:
Model Name Hire rate per day (`)
Honda City 1000
Tata Indica 800
Maruti WegonR 600

In order to attract customers, the car owner gives a discount on the number of
days a car is hired for. The policy of discount is as given below:
No. of days Discount rate (%)
1-5 0.00
6-10 10
11 and over 20

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For every car hired, a deposit of `10000 must be paid.

Develop a flow chart to print out the details for each customer such as name of
the customer, car model name, number of days a car is hired for, hire charges,
discount and total charges including deposits.

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Abbreviation:
Cname - Customer Name
NRT - Net Rate
HCHG - Hire Charges
TCHG - Total Charges
DISC - Discount

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Q15 Draw a flow chart to compute and print for 50 transactions (assuming all
are correct).
The Gross Sales (GS), Discount Allowed (DA), and Net Sales (NS).
The input document shall provide the Quantity Sold (QS) and the Unit Price (UP).
The discount is allowed as under:
No. of units sold Discount admissible
Less than 100 Nil
100-200 2%
201-500 5%
501-1000 10%
More than 1000 20%

It should also be noted that 25 transactions must be printed on one page. Suitable
column headings such as Gross Sales, Discount allowed and Net Sales must be
printed on every page.

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The required flowchart is given as below:
QS: Quantity Sold UP: Unit Price

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Q16 A bicycle shop in Delhi hires bicycles by the day at different rates as
shown in table:- Season Charges per day Spring (March - May) ` 8.00 Summer
(June - August) ` 9.50 Autumn (Sept - Nov.) ` 5.00 Winter (Dec. - Feb.) ` 6.00 To
attract his customers, the proprietor also gives a discount on the number of days a
bicycle is hired for. If the hire period is more than 10 days, a reduction of 15% is
made. For every bicycle hired, a deposit of ` 20 must be paid. Develop a flowchart
to print out the details for each customer such as name of customer, number of
days a bicycle is hired for, hire-charges and total charges including the deposit. It
is also assumed that there are 25 customers and complete details for each
customer such as name of customer, season and number of days the bicycle is
required for is inputted through console.

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Q17 A company has 2,500 employees. Their salaries are stored as J(s), 1, 2, ----
2500. The salaries
are divided in four categories as under:
(i) Less than ` 1,000 (ii) ` 1,000 to ` 2,000
(iii) ` 2,001 to ` 5,000 (iv) Above ` 5,000.

Draw a flow chart for finding the percentage of the employees in each category.

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Q18 A bank has 500 employees. The salary paid to each employee is sum of his
basic pay,
Dearness Allowance and House rent allowance. For the purpose of computing
house rent
allowance bank has classified his employees into three classes A, B and C. The
house
rent allowance for each class is computed at the rate of 30 percent, 20 percent
and 10

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percent of the basic pay respectively. The dearness allowance is computed at a
flat rate
of 60 percent of the basic pay. Draw a flow chart to determine the percentage of
employee
falling in the each of the following salary slabs:
(i) Above ` 30,000 (ii) ` 15,001 to ` 30,000
(iii) ` 8,001 to ` 15,000 (iv) Less than or equal to ` 8,000.

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Q19 An E-commerce site has the following cash back offers.

(i) If the purchase mode is via website, an initial discount of 10% is given on the
bill
amount.
(ii) If the purchase mode is via phone app. An initial discount of 20% is given on
the bill
amount.
(iii) If done via any other purchase mode, the customer is not eligible for any
discount.
Every purchase eligible to discount is given 10 reward points.
(a) If the reward points are between 100 and 200 points, the customer is eligible
for a
further 30% discount on the bill amount after initial discount.
(b) If the reward points exceed 200 points, the customer is eligible for a further
40%
discount on the bill amount after initial discount.
Taking purchase mode, bill amount and number of purchases as input draw a
flowchart
to calculate and display the total reward points and total bill amount payable by
the
customer after all the discount calculation.

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Let us define the variables first:
PM: Purchase Mode
BA: Bill Amount
TBA: Total Bill Amount
NOP: Number of Purchases

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TRP: Total Reward Points
IN_DISC: Initial Discount
ET_DISC: Extra Discount on purchases eligible to Initial Discount
N: Counter (to track the number of purchases)

Q 20 A company ABC Ltd. is engaged in selling consumer goods to different

categories of
customers. In order to increase its sales, different types of discounts are offered to

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customers. The policy of discount is as given below:
(i) On cooking range, a discount of 12 percent is allowed to dealers and 9 percent
to
retailers irrespective of the value of the order.
(ii) A discount of 12 percent is allowed on washing machine irrespective of the
category
of customer and the value of the order.
(iii) On decorative products, dealers are allowed a discount of 20 percent
provided that
the value of the order is ` 10,000 and above. Retailers are allowed a discount of
10
percent irrespective of the value of the order.
Draw a flow chart to calculate the discount for the above policy.

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Q21 Draw a flowchart for computing and printing the simple interest for 10,
12, 13, and 14 years
at the rate of 3% per annum on an investment of Rs. 10,000.

Q22 Assume that you opened a savings account with a local bank on 1-1-2004.
The annual
interest rate is 5%. Interest is compounded at the end of each month. Assuming
that your
initial deposit is X rupee, draw a flowchart to print out the balance of your
account at the end
of each month for two years.

Q23 Draw a flowchart to calculate the commission of a sales representative

based on the following set of
rules.
(i) If the sales is less than Rs. 5000, there is no commission.
(ii) If the sales is Rs. 5000 or above but less than Rs. 50000, then the commission
is computed @
10% of the sales.
(iii) If the sales is Rs. 50000 or above, the commission Rs. 5000 and @ 12% of the
sales above Rs.
50000.
Print the sales and commission.

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Q24 The XYZ Company follows the following procedure for dealing with
delivery charges for goods sold.
For the purpose of determining delivery charges, customer is divided into two
categories, those
whose sales region code is 30 or above, and those with sales region code of less
than 30.
(A) If the code is less than 30 and invoice amount is less than Rs. 15000, the
delivery charge is
Rs. 300. If the invoice value is Rs. 15000 or more, the delivery charge is Rs. 150.
(B) If the sales region code is equal to or greater than 30 and invoice total is less
than Rs.
15000/- the delivery charge is Rs. 400/- For invoices totaling Rs. 15000 or more,
the delivery
charge is Rs. 200/-
Prepare a flow chart to find out and print delivery charges

Q25 ABC India Ltd. has different types of items to sell to different types of
customers. In order to promote
its sale, discount is given as per the following procedure. A discount of 12% is
allowed on Washing
Machines irrespective of the class of customers and value of the order.
(i) On cooking range, a discount of 12 % is allowed to Dealers and 9% to Retailers
irrespective of the value of order.
(ii) On decorative products, Dealers are allowed a discount of 20% provided the
value of
order is 10000 or above. Retailers are allowed a discount of 10% irrespective of
the

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value of the order.
Draw a flowchart to calculate discount for above procedure.

Q26 An Insurance company follows the following rules:

(i) If a person’s health is good and age in between 20 and 40 years and lives in
city and sex is male,
then the premium is Rs. 20 per thousand and he will be insured for maximum
amount of Rs. 10
Lakhs.
(ii) If a person satisfies all the above conditions, except sex is female, then the
premium is Rs. 15
per thousand and maximum insured sum will be Rs. 15.0 Lakhs.
(iii) If a person’s health is poor and age is between 20 and 40 years, but lives in a
village. For a male
sex premium is Rs. 50 per thousand and maximum insured sum is Rs. 10 Lakh
only.
(iv) In all other cases the person is not to be insured.
Draw a flowchart to find eligibility of person to be insured, premium rate and
maximum amount of
insurance.

Q27 A bank accepts the fixed deposit for a year or more and the policy on
interest is as follows.
(i) If a deposit is less than Rs. 10000 and for two or more years, the interest rate is
5% compounded
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(ii) If a deposit is Rs. 10000 or more, but less than Rs. 50,000 and for two or more
years the interest
rate is 7% compounded annually.
(iii) If deposit is Rs. 50000 or more and is for one year or more the interest rate is
8% compounded
annually.
(iv) On all deposits for 5 years or more interest rate is 10% compounded
annually.
(v) On all other deposits not covered by the above conditions, the interest rate is
3%.
(vi) If the customer is holder of any type of account for last five years, an
additional 1% interest is
allowed.
Draw a flowchart to obtain the money in customer’s account and interest
credited at the time of
withdrawal.

Q28 COCK India Ltd sells soft drinks to three types of sales outlet
(a) Super Markets and Large departmental Store (b) Retailers (c) Hotel and
Catering
Establishments
Depending upon the sales outlet and value of sales, the discounts are officered as
per the
chart.
Prepare a Flowchart to find out and print the discount offered.

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Q29 A bank has 500 employees. The salary paid to each employee is sum of his
Basic Pay, Dearness
Allowance and House Rent Allowance. For the purpose computing house rent
allowance bank has
classified his employees into three classes A, B and C. The House Rent Allowance
for each class
is computed at the rate of 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent of the basic pay
respectively. The
Dearness Allowance is computed at flat rate of 60% of Basic Pay. Draw a
flowchart to determine the
percentage of employees falling in the each of following salary slab:
(i) Above Rs. 30,000
(ii) Rs. 15,001 to Rs. 30,000
(iii) Rs. 8,001 to Rs. 15, 000
(iv) Less than or equal to Rs. 8,000

Q30 The weights of newly born babies in a hospital are input to computer. The
hospital in charge is

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interested to find the maximum, minimum and mean weights of all the weights of
babies. Draw a
flowchart for this problem and a value of zero for weight can be used as end of
flowchart.

Q31 Draw a flow chart to illustrate the following situation. Ganesh Limited
calculates discounts allowed to customers on the following basis:
Order Quantity Normal Discount

1-99 5%

100-199 7%

200-499 9%

500 and above 10%

These discount apply only if the customer’s account balance is below Rs. 500 and
does not include any item older than three months. If the account is outside both
these limits, the above discounts are reduced by 2%. If only one condition is
violated, the discounts are reduced by 1%. If a customer has been trading with
Ganesh Limited for over 5 years and conforms to both of the above credit checks,
then he is allowed an additional 1% discount.

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Q32 Draw a flow chart to read Consumer number, pervious reading, current
reading, type of customer (D=domestic C-commercial & others) calculate and
print the bill, the tariff is as follows; -
Type of customer Cost per unit Minimum bill

D=domestic Rs 1.80 If less than 20 units it is Rs 50 flat

C=Commercial Rs 3.20 If less than 20 units it is RS 75 flat

Others Rs 5.00 If less than 20 units it is rs 120 flat

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