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lTask 2 - Topic: Algorithm design and problem solving


Name: _______ Subject:

Date: ________ Grade: 10 IGCSE

Practice question – 1:

a. The following pseudocode algorithm should:


• input up to 20 numbers
• stop if the sum of the input numbers exceeds 50
• output the final sum
10 count = 0
20 REPEAT
30 INPUT n
40 n + sum = sum
50 IF sum = 50 THEN count = 20
60 count = count + 1
70 UNTIL count = 20
80 OUTPUT n
There are five errors in this algorithm.
Locate these errors and suggest a correction.
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b.The following section of a pseudocode algorithm should:


• input 500 numbers
• generate a ratio called k
• output each value of k
• output how many numbers were larger than 10
10 total = 1
20 FOR x = 1 TO 500
30 IF number < 10 THEN total = total + 1
40 k = x / number
50 x = x + 1
60 OUTPUT k
70 NEXT x
80 OUTPUT x

Practice question – 2:

a. A School has 3000 students sitting final examinations.


Each student sits eight examinations.
Write an algorithm, using pseudocode or a flowchart,
which:
 Input the marks for all 8 examinations for each student
 Outputs for each student the average mark for their 8
examinations
 Outputs the highest mark overall.
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highest = 0

for student = 1 to 3000

total = 0

for exam = 1 to 8

input mark

total = total + mark

if mark > highest then

highest = mark

next exam

average = total/8

output average

next student

output highest

b. A group of students were monitoring the temperature


every day over a one-year period.
Readings were taken ten times every day (you may
assume a year contains 365 days).

Write an algorithm, using pseudocode or flowchart, which


 inputs all the temperatures (ten per day)
 outputs the highest temperature taken over the year
 outputs the lowest temperature taken over the year
 outputs the average temperature per day
 outputs the average temperature for the whole year

highest = -100
lowest = 100
total_year = 0
for c = 1 to 365
total_day = 0
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for d = 1 to 10
input temp
total_day = total_day + temp
total_year = total_year + temp
if temp > highest then
highest = temp
if temp < lowest then
lowest = temp
next d
average_day = total_day/10
print average_day
next c
average_year = total_year/3650
print highest, lowest, average_year

c. A customer wants to compare prices of 1000 items sold in


two supermarkets (price1 and price 2).

Write an algorithm, using pseudocode or a flowchart,


which:

 inputs the two prices for all 1000 items


 outputs how many items were more expensive in
supermarket 1
 outputs how many items were more expensive in
supermarket 2
 outputs the largest price difference

smarket1 = 0: smarket2 = 0

for item = 1 to 1000

input price1, price2

if price1 > price2 then

smarket1 = smarket1 + 1

if price2 > price1 then


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smarket2 = smarket2 + 1

difference = price1 – price2

if difference < 0 then

difference = - difference

if difference > largest then

largest = difference

next item

output smarket1, smarket2, largest

Practice question – 3:

a. There is a program that stores the following data:


 StudentID, a student ID which must be two letters followed
by 4 numbers, e.g. NP4578
 Gender, the Student Gender which can be M or F only
 Graduated, whether the student is graduated or not
 Examination result (%),which can be any number from 0 to
100
Complete the following table to identify:

 The most appropriate data type for each variable


 An appropriate validation check for each variable. You
must use a different validation check for each variable.
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Practice question – 4:

Write an algorithm, using pseudocode or a program flowchart


only, which: • inputs the population and land area for 500
countries,

• calculates the population density (i.e. population/land area)


for every country,

• outputs the largest and smallest population density,

• outputs the average population for all 500 countries.


smallest = 10000: largest = 0: total = 0

for country = 1 to 500

input population, area

density = population/area

if density > largest then largest = density

if density < smallest then smallest = density

total = total + population

next country

average = total/500 print largest, smallest, average

Repeat..Until& WHILE

correct loop ( repeat .... until n = 500, while n <> 500 do ....)
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