SECONDARY FOUR EXPRESS

COMPUTING
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

Solution Paper 2

Task 1
ORDERS_sample - Formula view

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One mark for correct working HLOOKUP with FALSE lookup (top [2]
formula), One mark for the rest
1
=HLOOKUP(B3,B$26:F$27,2,FALSE)

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2 One mark for correct conditional statement. One mark for multiplying [2]
with Basic Price.

=IF(C3="Luxury",0.2,IF(C3="Deluxe",0.1,IF(C3="Classic",0)))*D3

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3 One mark for summing up Basic Price and Package Price. [1]

=D3+E3

4 One mark for multiplying Loan% to get the Loan amount [1]

=F3*G3

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 5 One mark for correct working VLOOKUP with TRUE lookup (top [2]
formula. One mark for the rest

=VLOOKUP(I3,A$33:C$36,3,TRUE)

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6 One mark for working top formula. (Accept negative answers) [1]

=-PMT(J3/12,I3*12,H3,0)

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7 One mark for working top formula. [1]

=COUNTIF($B3:$B22,B26)

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Task 2

MYBMI
students = 15
upp_bound = 25
low_bound = 18.5
underwt, overwt = 0, 0

for count in range(students):

weight = float(input('Enter weight of student in kg '))
height = float(input('Enter height of student in cm '))
bmi = weight/height**2 * 10000
if bmi > upp_bound:
print('Student is overweight')
overwt += 1
elif bmi < low_bound:
print('Student is underweight')
underwt += 1
else:
print('Student\'s weight is normal')

print("Number of overweight students ", overwt)

print("Number of underweight students ", underwt)

MYBMI2
students = int(input("Enter number of students "))
upp_bound = 25
low_bound = 18.5
underwt, overwt = 0, 0

for count in range(students):

weight = float(input('Enter weight of student in kg '))
while weight < 30 or weight > 150:
print('Invalid weight')
weight = float(input('Enter weight of student in kg '))
height = float(input('Enter height of student in cm '))
while height < 80 or height > 200:
print('Invalid height')
height = float(input('Enter height of student in cm '))
bmi = weight/height**2 * 10000
if bmi > upp_bound:
print('Student is overweight')
overwt += 1
elif bmi < low_bound:
print('Student is underweight')
underwt += 1
else:
print('Student\'s weight is normal')

print("Number of overweight students ", overwt)

print("Number of underweight students ", underwt)

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Task 3

MYMARKS
nlist = ["Alden", "Belle", "Charles", "Dolly", "Elle", "Falken", "Grace",
"Hacken"]
mlist = [56, 64, 23, 78, 53, 46, 98, 33]

to_find = input("Which name would you like to search for? ")

items = len(nlist)
num = 0
name_found = False
while name_found == False:
while num < items:
if nlist[num] == to_find:
print("{} score {} for the test".format(nlist[num], mlist[num]))
name_found = True
num = items
elif num == items - 1:
print("{} is not in the list".format(to_find))
name_found = True
num = items
else:
num += 1

Question Answer Marks

10 One mark for correct list syntax
mlist = [56, 64, 23, 78, 53, 46, 98, 33] [1]
One mark for getting correct number of items
items = len(nlist) [1]
One mark for correct while condition
while name_found == False: [1]
One mark for correct while condition
while num < items: [1]
One mark for correct syntax and one mark for : [1]
if nlist[num] == to_find: [1]
One mark for correct index
print("{} score {} for the test".format(nlist[num], [1]
mlist[num]))
One mark for correct logic
num = items [1]
One mark for correct logic
name_found = True [1]
One mark for incrementing
num += 1 [1]

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Task 4

TPSTAFF
no_staff = 5

staff_list = []
time_in = []
time_out = []
work_time = []
wage = []

for i in range(no_staff):
staff = input("Enter name of staff: ")
staff_list += [staff]
tin = input("Time-in HH:MM for {}: ".format(staff))
while not (tin[:2].isdigit() and tin[2] == ":" and tin[-
2:].isdigit()\
and len(tin) == 5 and 0 <= int(tin[:2]) <= 23 and 0 <=
int(tin[-2:]) <= 59):
tin = input("Invalid! Time-in HH:MM for {}:
".format(staff))
time_in += [tin]

tout = input("Time-out HH:MM for {}: ".format(staff))

while not (tout[:2].isdigit() and tout[2] == ":" and tout[-
2:].isdigit()\
and 0 <= int(tout[:2]) <= 23 and 0 <= int(tout[-2:])
<= 59 and len(tout) == 5\
and (int(tout[:2])> int(tin[:2]) or int(tout[:2])
== int(tin[:2]) and \
int(tout[-2:]) >= int(tin[-2:]))):
tout = input("Invalid! Time-out HH:MM for {}:
".format(staff))
time_out += [tout]
work = (int(tout[:2])- int(tin[:2]))*60 + int(tout[-2:]) -
int(tin[-2:])
work_time += [work]

print()
for i in range(no_staff):
print("{} worked for {} minutes".format(staff_list[i],
work_time[i]))

print()
print("Average number of minutes worked:
{}".format(round(sum(work_time)/len(work_time),1)))

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RESULT screenshot
Enter name of staff: Andy
Time-in HH:MM for Andy: 08:05
Time-out HH:MM for Andy: 13:55
Enter name of staff: Ben
Time-in HH:MM for Ben: 07:03
Time-out HH:MM for Ben: 07:00
Invalid! Time-out HH:MM for Ben: eight o'clock
Invalid! Time-out HH:MM for Ben: 08:00
Enter name of staff: Charles
Time-in HH:MM for Charles: 10:03
Time-out HH:MM for Charles: 13:115
Invalid! Time-out HH:MM for Charles: 13:11
Enter name of staff: Dominic
Time-in HH:MM for Dominic: 09-04
Invalid! Time-in HH:MM for Dominic: 09:04
Time-out HH:MM for Dominic: 15:35
Enter name of staff: Ethan
Time-in HH:MM for Ethan: 08:42
Time-out HH:MM for Ethan: 16:55

Andy worked for 350 minutes

Ben worked for 57 minutes
Charles worked for 188 minutes
Dominic worked for 391 minutes
Ethan worked for 493 minutes

Average number of minutes worked: 295.8

TPSTAFF2 (appended to TPSTAFF)

print()
for i in range(no_staff):
if work_time [i] <= 240:
wage = work_time[i]//15*3
else:
wage = (work_time[i]-240)//15*4 + 240//15*3
print("{} will be paid ${}".format(staff_list[i], wage))

TPSTAFF3
staff_list = []
time_in = []
time_out = []
work_time = []
wage = []
staff = input("Enter name of staff: ")

while staff != '':

staff_list += [staff]
tin = input("Time-in HH:MM for {}: ".format(staff))

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 while not (tin[:2].isdigit() and tin[2] == ":" and tin[-
2:].isdigit()\
and len(tin) == 5 and 0 <= int(tin[:2]) <= 23 and 0 <=
int(tin[-2:]) <= 59):
tin = input("Invalid! Time-in HH:MM for {}:
".format(staff))
time_in += [tin]

tout = input("Time-out HH:MM for {}: ".format(staff))

while not (tout[:2].isdigit() and tout[2] == ":" and tout[-
2:].isdigit()\
and 0 <= int(tout[:2]) <= 23 and 0 <= int(tout[-2:]) <=
59 and len(tout) == 5\
and (int(tout[:2])> int(tin[:2]) or int(tout[:2])
== int(tin[:2]) and \
int(tout[-2:]) >= int(tin[-2:]))):
tout = input("Invalid! Time-out HH:MM for {}:
".format(staff))
time_out += [tout]
work = (int(tout[:2])- int(tin[:2]))*60 + int(tout[-2:]) -
int(tin[-2:])
work_time += [work]
staff = input("Enter name of staff: ")

print()
for i in range(len(staff_list)):
print("{} worked for {} minutes".format(staff_list[i],
work_time[i]))

print()
print("Average number of minutes worked:
{}".format(round(sum(work_time)/len(work_time),1)))

print()
for i in range(len(staff_list)):
if work_time [i] <= 240:
wage = work_time[i]//15*3
else:
wage = (work_time[i]-240)//15*4 + 240//15*3
print("{} will be paid ${}".format(staff_list[i], wage))

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