Beginner: having problem with "simple" arithmetic program

[mwbeatty]

Hi all,

I am a rank beginner to programming and have been following along to a couple of tutorials. I feel like I have a decent grip on the basics and decided to go solo and attempt a very simple program.
What I thought I would do is create a program to calculate batting average. Simple right? hits/at bats. Well I get no errors when compiling but it just doesn't calculate properly. I'm guessing it has something to do with the at-bats being the larger number. Any tips or pointers would be much appreciated, and here is the code (please be kind!) that I've written
Thanks
Mike

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>



int main()
{
  int hits;
  int atbats;
  float bavg;
    
  scanf("%d%d", &hits, &atbats);
  
  bavg = hits/atbats;
  
  printf("%f", bavg);
    
    getch();
    return 0;
    
    }

[Spidey]

Since both you hits and atbats variables are declared as ints, bavg = hits/atbats will result in integer division, truncating any decimal value. Even thogh the bavg is declared as a float it will get assigned the truncated value. So, you want to declare your hits and atbats as floats and read them in using %f.

[mwbeatty]

Thank you Spidey. I tried that and it worked perfectly. I was on the right track as at one point I declared them all as floats but that was before I learned about %f.
Boy I've got a lot to learn but this is so much fun, I can't wait to try learn something new.

Thanks again.
Mike.