Thread: Supposed to return float but doesn't.

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

float dividethesenumbers(int x, int y){
    return x/y;
}

int main()
{
    int x;
    int y;
    cout << "2 numbers to be divided. \n First number: ";
    cin >> x;
    cout << "Second number: ";
    cin >> y;
    cout << dividethesenumbers(x,y) << endl;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

I'm still very wet behind the ears with C++, please bear with.

I was going over function prototypes, to further remember the syntax, and came accross something I can't quite figure out.

Using the above code, I compiled and used 22 for x and 7 for y. (Pi) Instead of getting 3.14......, I got 3.

dividethesenumbers is supposed to return a float, right? I know I used integers for x and y as input but I thought the function would return the type I told it to.

I know the fix is to replace the int x, int y with float x, float y (as well as in main()) but I don't understand why my function won't return the type I ask.