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Thread: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

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    Default Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    So i am supposed to calculate someones savings+their interest rate for each month, but it only wants me to display the 6th month. I am lost how to get to the 6th month. I made the code work for the first one and for an example i used 100 as the savings and .05 as the interest. any help would be appreciated. Code so far is:

    import java.util.Scanner;
    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
     
     
    //September 19, 2012 pg 77 #2.13
    public class Pg77 {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
     
            String numtxt= JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a monthly savings amount.");
     
             Double savings = Double.parseDouble(numtxt);
     
        numtxt = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter annual interest rate as a decimal           i.e. 5%=.05");
     
        Double arate = Double.parseDouble(numtxt);
     
        Double rate=arate/12;
     
       Double interest=rate*savings;
     
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, savings + "*" + rate + "=" + interest);
     
       Double year1=interest+savings;
     
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, savings + "+" + interest + "=" + year1);
        }
    }
    Last edited by ColeTrain; September 19th, 2012 at 08:15 PM.


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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    Please Edit your post and wrap your code with
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    how to get to the 6th month.
    Does that mean to compute the first 5 months and not display them? You could use a loop to compute the first 5 months.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    Thanks for that. the first 5 months can be displayed in the code, but the 6th is all that is wanted in the dialog box after running the program. I just didnt know if i had to manually put in all the months or if I could use some shortcut command that I was unaware of

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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    I just didnt know if i had to manually put in all the months
    Look at using a loop.
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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    how do i do that?

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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    I don't know what formulas you have for computing interest and compounding it.
    Here's some pseudo code:
    set principle amt to start with
    begin loop (to loop number of periods)
    compute interest on principle for this period
    add interest to principle
    end loop
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    Default Re: Working on a code to calculate interest rates...

    Hey Norm,

    I thought this problem would be great for my education, so I tried to solve it. I ran into trouble with the loop. I have trouble incrementing it. I took his numbers and when I enter it in the loop i just get the loop to repeat the formula over and over again. If i use the increment of x, then it adds one to it, but it actually some what works Does that make sense?

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    If you are having problems with the code, post the code and your questions.
    Also post the output from the program and explain what is wrong with it.
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