Can't get output to display dollar sign

I am still working on my mail order program. I have got the program to the point where it needs to output the amounts with a dollar sign. When I code '$' in I can not figure out where to put it so that I do not get an error with it. Here is the code that I am trying to output:

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// ouput summary of results
        cout << "\n\nTotals for each product sold are: "
              << "\nProduct 1: " << ( aCount * 2.98 )  // display dollar amount of product1                 
              << "\nProduct 2: " << ( bCount * 4.50 )  // display dollar amount of product2                 
              << "\nProduct 3: " << ( cCount * 9.98 )  // display dollar amount of product3                 
              << "\nProduct 4: " << ( dCount * 4.49 )  // display dollar amount of product4                 
              << "\nProduct 5: " << ( eCount * 6.87 )  // display dollar amount of product5
                  << "\nQuantity of all products sold: " << ( quantitySold = aCount + bCount + cCount + dCount + eCount )
                  << endl;

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Also is it possible to output this, for example, product 1: 6 @ $2.98 = $17.88? If so would it be coded here in my output summary or up in the program?

You can chain the operator<< calls (technically you are already chaining them). Just write out everything you want to display like in your example. Then replace the variable values (like 6 and 17.88) with the code that produces them. Then put double quotes areound the rest of the text snippets before, after and between each variable value. Finally, add << between each piece, the quoted strings and the variable values.

I changed the code to this:

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<< "\nProduct 1: " << " aCount " << "@ " << " $" << "2.98 " << " =" << " $" << ( aCount * 2.98 )

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It ouputs everything right except for the aCount. It prints out aCount instead of the number of items. Am I not understanding where the count is coming from? If need be I can post my programming so that you can see what I have so far.

Variables aren't placed under quotes.

Code:

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cout << "\nProduct 1: " << aCount << "@ " << " $" << "2.98 " << " =" << " $" << ( aCount * 2.98 )

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Thank you. I got it figured out. I had to place ( quantitySold = aCount ) where I had just aCount.

>> I got it figured out. I had to place ( quantitySold = aCount ) where I had just aCount.

No you didn't, you just had to remove the quotes around aCount. You should probably do the assignment to quantitySold later like your original code does.