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Practical Question of Program Flowcharts
Diagrammatic Representation of Buiness Process
1. Flow Charts—
SYMBOLS OF FLOWCHART
S.No. Symbol Name Description

1. Terminator A start or stop point in a process

2. Process An operation or action step

3. Data input & output Idicates data inputs and output to and

from a process

4. Decision A question or brance in a process

5. Flow Line Indicates the direction of flow for

materials and/ or information

6. Connector A jump from one point to another

7. Off Page Connector Continuation onto another page

Practical Questions of Program Flowcharts

Q.1 Draw flow chart compute and print income-tax and surcharge 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:—
Upto 40,000 No tax
Upto 60,000 @10% of amount above Rs.40,000
Upto 1,50,000 Rs.2,000+20% of amount above Rs.60,000
Above 1,50,000 Rs.20,000+30% of amount above Rs.1,50,000
Charge surcharges @2% on the amount of total tax,if the income of a person exceeds Rs.2,00,000.
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Q.2 The Income-tax for the employees of an organization is calculated on the basis of their
Gross Income and the Investment made by them. under section 80CCC.The taxable in-
come is calculated according to the following rules:
Taxable Income = Gross Income — Investments provided investments are less than 1Lac.
Otherwise
Taxable Income = Gross Income-1,00,000
Following rules are applied to calculate the Income-tax, on the Taxable Income.
Taxable Income Income-tax
(i) 0-1,60,000 Nil
(ii) 1,60,001-3,00,000 10% on the excess of 1,60,000
(iii) 3,00,001-5,00,000 14,000+20% on the excess of 3,00,000
(iv) 5,00,001 and above 54,000+30% on the excess of 5,00,000
Also an educational cess of 3% of Income-tax is levied on all the employees, irrespective of the
income. Employee number,Name, Gross Income, Investment amount is given as input.
Draw a flow chart to calculate the Income-tax payable by each employee.
(May.2010)
Q.3 Draw a flow chart to compute and print income tax, surcharges and education cess on the
income of a person where income is to be 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% amount above 1,00,000
(iii) 1,50,001 to 2,50,000 Rs.5,000+20% of amount above 2,50,000
(iv) 2,50,001 Onwards Rs.25,000+30% of amount above 2,50,000
Surcharge @10% on the amount of total tax, if the income of a person exceeds Rs.10,00,000
Education 2% on the total tax
(May 2006)
Q.4 An electric supply company charge the following rates for its domestic consumers:—
No. of unit Consumed Charges/Unit

For the first 200 units Rs. 1.60

For the next 300 units Rs. 2.10

Over 500 units Rs. 3.90
Surcharges@ 20% of the bill is to be added to the charges.
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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Q.5 A biycle shop in a city hires biycles by the day at different rates for different models as
given below:
Model No. Hire rate per day (Rs.)
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 a
hired for the policy of discount is as given below.
No. of days Discount rate(%)
1-5 0.00
6-10 8
11and above 15
For every bicycle hired, a deposit of Rs.30 must be paid.
Develop a flow chart to print out the details for each customer such a name of the customer bicycle
model number, nnumber of days a bicyle is hired for, hire charges, discount and total charges includ-
ing deposits.
(May.2008)
Q.6 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 Rs.10
Model No.2 Rs.9
Model No.3 Rs.8
Model No.4 Rs.7
In order to attract customers, the shopkeeper gives a discount of 15 percent to all those customers,
who hire a bicycle for more than one week period. Further to attract women customer, he gives
additonal discount of 10 percent irrespective of hire period. For every bicycle hired a security deposit
of Rs.25 must be paid.
Draw a flow chart to print out the details of each customer such as name of customer, bicycle model
number, number of days a bicycle is hired for, hire charges, discount and total charges including
deposits.
(Nov. 2004)

Q. 7. A Book publisher offers discount to customers on the basis of customer type and number
of copies ordered as shown below:
Customer Type No. of Copies Ordered % of Discout
Book Seller More than 10 25
Less than or equal to 10 15
Library More than 5 20
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.
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Q. 8. For computing custom duty, the imported items are classified into for 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 land Leather goods 15
3. Heacvy machinery 20
4. Luxury items 40
Draw a flow chart to compute the custom duty.
(May 2011/May 2014)
Q. 9. 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
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 Rs. 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.
(May. 2004)/(May17)
Q.10. An electricity distributions company has three categories of consumers namely-
(i) Domestic (ii) Commercial (iii) Industry.
The charges of electricity per unit consumed by these consumers are Rs. 3, Rs. 4 and Rs. 5
respectively. The computer database of the company has following information:
• Consumer’s name • Category
• Units consumed • Bill date
• Date of payment
The company processes bills according to the following criterion.
If the consumer is domestic and pays the bill within 10 days of the bill date 5% discount is given. If
he pays the bill within 15 days, no discount is given. If he makes the payment after 15 days of the bill
date, 10% surcharges is levied. For the non-domestic consumers (commercial or industry),
corresponding percentages be 10%, 0% and 15% respectively.
Draw a flowchart to calculate the bill amount, discount, surcharge and net amount of the bill for
each type of consumer and print it. (May. 2003/Nov. 2005)

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Q.11. An insurance company follow the following rules:
(i) If a person’s health is good and age is between 20 and 40 years and lives in city and gender is male,
then 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 that gender is female, then the premium is Rs.
15 per thousand and maximum insured sum will be Rs. 15 lakhs.
(iii) If a person’s health is poor and age is between 20 and 40 years, but lives in village. For a male
gender, premium is Rs. 50 per thousand and maximum insured sum is Rs. 1 Lakh only.
(iv) In all other cases, the person is not to be insured.
Draw a flow chart to find the eligibility of a person to be insured, premium rate and maximum
amount of insurance. (Nov. 2002)
Q. 12. A housing society having 400 members pay electricity bills at the following rates:
No. of units consumed Charges/Units ( )
For the first 200 units 2.65
For the next 300 units 3.90
Over 500 units 4.75
Surcharge @ 5% of the bill is to be added to the charges.
Draw a flow chart which will read the house number and the number of units consumed. Print the
total charges with the house number and the units consumed. (Nov. 2011)

Q 13. 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. (May. 2007)
Q. 14. A firm has 200 employees. Their salaries are divided in four categories as under :
(i) Less than Rs. 2,000
(ii) Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 4,000
(iii) Rs. 4,001 to Rs. 5,000
(iv) Above Rs. 5,000.
Draw a program flow chart for finding the percentage of employees in each category.
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Q.15. A bank has 500 employees. The salary paid to each employee is sum of his basis pay,
dearness allowance and house rent allowance. For the purpose of computing house rent
allowance bank has classified his employee into three classes A, B and C. The house rent
allowance for each class is computed @ 30%, 20% and 10% of the basic pay respectively.
The dearness allowance is computed at a flat rate at 60 % of the basic pay.
Draw a flow chart to determine the percentage of employee falling in the each of the
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 (May. 2005)
Q.16. (a) Write the output sequence (at least first five numbers) for the given flowchart, if N =
0 is selected as the value for N as input.
(b) If the statement “N=N * N” in the computation box of the flowchart is modified as “N
= N * (N-1) “. Write the output sequence (at least first five numbers) for the flowchart with
N = 0 as the input value for N.

Start

Input N

Yes Stop
N > 1000

No
Print N

N=N+1

N=N*N

(2009)
17. Draw a program flowchart to find the sum of first 50 odd numbers.
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Answer
Answer 1 —

Start

Read I

If F If F If F
I  I  I 

T T T

TA = (I–40000) TA = 2000 + TA = 20000 +

TA = 0 * 0.1 T (I –60,000)*0.2
T (I –1,50,000)*0.3

<
If F
I >200,000
I = In come
T
TA = Tax Amount
S= 0.02*TA S=0 S = Surcharge

Print TA, S

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Answer 2 —

Start

Input ENO, EN, GI, INV

If
INV  F

T
TI = GI –1,00,000 TI = GI –INV

IF
F If
TI < 1,60,000 F If
TI< 3,00,000 TI < 5,00,000 F

T T T T
T = (TI –1,60,000) T = 14,000 + T = 54,000 +
T=0 (TI –5,00,000)*.03
* 0.1 (TI –3,00,000)*.02

EC = T*0.3
ENO = Employee No.
EN = Employee Name
TT = T + EC
GI = Gross Income
INV = Investment Amount
Print ENO, EN, GI, TT TI = Taxable Income
T = Tax
TT = Total Tax
EC = Education Cess
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Answer 3—

Start

Read I

If If F
If F F I 
I  I 

T T T
T = (I–1,00,000) T = (I–1,50,000) T = (I–2,50,000)
T=0 *0.1 *0.2+5000 *0.3+25000

If F
I >10,00,000

S = T*0.1 S=0

EC =( T+S)*0.02

Print I, T, S,E,C

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Answer 4 —

Start

Read CN, UC

if
UC F if
UC F

T T
CH = 320 + CH = 950 +
CH = UC * 1.6 (UC –200)* 2.1 (UC –500)* 3.9

SCH = CH *0.2 CN = Consumer Number

UC = Unit Consumed
CH = Charges
TCH = CH + SCH SCH = Surcharges
TCH = Total Charges

Working note:–
(I) For the first 200 unit × 1.6 = 320
(ii) For the next 300 unit × 2.10 = 630
500 950

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Answer 5 —

Start

Read CN, MN, DY

If F If F
MN = 1 If
MN = 2 F
MN = 3

T T T
CH = DY* 14 CH = DY* 12 CH = DY* 10 Print “Invalid Input”

If If
DY F C
DY F

T T

D=0 D = CH* 0.08 D =CH* 0.15

TCH = CH –D + 30
CN = Consumer Number
MN = Model Number
Print CN, MN, DY, CH, D, TCH DY = No. of Days
CH = Charges
D = Discount
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Answer 6—

Start

Read CN, MN, DY, G

If F If F If F If F
MN = 1 MN = 2 MN = 3 MN = 4

T T T T
CH= DY*10 CH= DY*9 CH= DY*8 CH= DY*7 Print “Invalid Input”

if F if F
G= ‘F’ DY> 7
C
T
F T
if
DY> 7

T
D = CH*25 D = CH*1 D = CH*15 D=0

TCH= CH–D+25
CN = Consumer Name
MN = Model Number
Print CN, MN, DY, CH, D, TCH DY = Number of Days
G = Gender
CH = Charages
F = Female
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TCH = Total Charges

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Answer 7 —

L = Library
CN= Name
CT = Customer Type
BN = Bill Number
Q = No. of Qty
UP = Unit Price
BA = Bill Amount
D = Discount
NA = Net Amount
BS = Book Seller

NA

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Answer 8—

F F F

Print “Invalid Input”

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Answer 9—

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Answer 10—

Print “Invalid Input”

4
C

F F

T T

CN = Consumer Name
CT = Consumer Category
UC = Unit Consumed
BD = Bill Date
DOP = Date of Payment
COM = Commercial
A = Amount
C DY= Payment Days
D = Discount Amount
S = Surcharge
NA = Net Amount
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Answer 11—

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Answer 12—

T
T

Working note:–
(I) For the first 200 unit × 2.65 = 530
(ii) For the next 300 unit × 3.90 = 1170
500 1700

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Answer 14—

OR CAWL/CW

SN = 1

T T T

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Answer15—

‘A’ ‘B’

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Answer16—
(a) The output sequence will be—
0,1,4,25,676
(b) The output sequence in this case will be:
0,0,0,0,0
Being in loop, the program will continue to write 0 endlessly.
Answer 17—

Start

SN = 1, S = 0

if F
SN< 100 Print S STOP

S = S + SN

SN = SN+2

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