Thread: Lowest score drop assignment

Hello everyone, I am having a problem to program this assignment. (I've looked in my C++ book and searched these boards and google other forums already, but nothing I've found explains that help me to solve the problem.) My problem is that after I input the getScores. I get a break or continue error and fail to build the program. I think the problem was the "findLowest" or "calcAverage" part in the code. Here is an error that I got: (error C3861: "findLowest": identifier not found.) I almost finish the assignment, but this error keeps failing me. I hope someone could explain the problem to me, and guide me how to work on this problem/error. Thank you, and I would really appreciate you very much.

Here is the following assignment question:

Write a program that calcuates the average of a group of 5 test scores, where the lowest score in the group is dropped. Your program should use the following functions:

• getScore( ) should ask the user for a test score, store it in a reference variable, and validate it. This function should be called by main once for each of the five scores.
• calcAverage( ) should calculate and display the average of the four highest scores. This function should be called just once by main, and should be passed the five scores.
• findLowest( ) should find and return the lowest of the five scores passed to it. It should be called by cacAverage, which uses the function to determin which of the five scores to drop.

Input Validation: Do not accept test scores lower than 0 or higher than 100


And here is the code:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
 
// Function prototype
void getScore(int &);
void calcAverage(int, int, int, int, int);
int fineLowest(int, int, int, int, int);
        
int main()
{
         int testScr1, testScr2, testScr3, testScr4, testScr5;
        
        
         getScore(testScr1);
         getScore(testScr2);
         getScore(testScr3);
         getScore(testScr4);
         getScore(testScr5);
 
         calcAverage(testScr1, testScr2, testScr3, testScr4, testScr5);
 
 
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}
 
//********************************************
//Definition of function getScore                                     *
//This function displays a message.                                 *
//********************************************
void getScore(int &score)
{
         cout << "Enter a test score\n";
         cin >> score;
        
         while (score < 0 || score > 100)
         {
                  cout << "Please enter a valid test score that between 0 to 100\n";
                  cin >> score;
         }
 
}
 
 
//*******************************************
//Definition of function calcAverage                             *
//This function displays a message.                               *
//*******************************************
void calcAverage(int s1, int s2, int s3, int s4, int s5)
{
         int sum;
         int      lowest;
         double average;
        
        
         lowest = findLowest(s1, s2, s3, s4, s5);
 
         sum = s1 + s2 + s3 + s4 + s5 - lowest;
         average = sum/4.0;
        
         cout << setw(4) << fixed << showpoint << setprecision(2);
         cout << "The avergae of the four highest scores are: " << average << endl;
}
 
 
//*******************************************
//Definition of function findLowest                               *
//This function displays a message.                               *
//*******************************************
int findLowest(int s1, int s2, int s3, int s4, int s5)
{
         int lowest = s1; 
        
        
    if (s2 < lowest )        
         {
                  lowest = s2;
         }
         else if (s3 < lowest)
         {
                  lowest = s3;
         }
         else if (s4 < lowest)
    {
                  lowest = s4;
         }
         else if (s5 < lowest)
         {
                  lowest = s5;
         }
 
         cout << "The lowest test score is: " << lowest << endl;
 
    return lowest;
}

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(P.s. I am a newcomer to this website, and also a newbie in c++ programming field.)

fineLowest.. Lowest is fine instead of find

Remove all the else's from findLowest.

Something like

Code:

         if (s2 < lowest )       
         {
                  lowest = s2;
         }
         if (s3 < lowest)
         {
                  lowest = s3;
         }

Prototype:
int fineLowest(int, int, int, int, int);

Definition:
int findLowest(int s1, int s2, int s3, int s4, int s5)

And while you're at it, read: SourceForge.net: Do not remove parameter names - cpwiki
Learning how to use arrays and loops wouldn't be a bad idea, either.