Thread: yet more code help

my parents have thier own cleaning buisness and i am trying to make a program that will calculate how much they will charge for that much of a floor and i made this for the code and it works fine except for what they will charge it gives some huge number that i dont know where its getting it form anyways here is the code
#include <iostream.h>

int main()
{
int Width;
int length;
cout<<"enter a width";
cin>>Width;
cout<<"enter a length";
cin>>length;
int Area = Width * length;
int cents;
int cost =Area * cents;
cout << "Width:" << Width << endl;
cout << "Length: " << length << endl;
cout << "Area: " << Area << endl;/* this tells you what the area of what you typed in is*/
cout << "enter the amount of cents per square foot:";
cin>>cents;
cout << "total cost in cents:" << cost << endl;

char exit=exit;
cout<< "type exit to exit:";
cin>>exit;
return 0;
}

int cents;
int cost =Area * cents;

Have you ever read anywhere to always intialize your variables? When you declare the variable cents, you don't intialize it with a value, so it contains a random junk value, and cost is calculated with that junk value.

cout << "enter the amount of cents per square foot:";
cin>>cents;

Those lines do nothing since you already calculated the cost earlier in your code.

i got it