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    Default Need help with a java statement.

    Okay here is the assignment. I need to use a for loop to solve this problem.

    You are offered two salary options for ten days work. Option 1: $100 per day.
    Option 2: $1 for the first day, $2 for the second day, $4 for the third day, and so on,

    I have already figured out a way to solve the first portion of the problem. But the 2nd problem is giving me a hard time

    /**
     * 
     * 
     * CSC 225 - Online
     * Problem 8
     */
     
    import java.text.*;
     
    public class PBS5_8
    {
        public static void main(String [] args)
        {
     
            double optionOne, optionTwo, increment, sum1, sum2; 
            optionOne = 100;
            optionTwo = 1;
            sum1 = 0;
            sum2 = 0;
     
            for(increment = 1; increment <= 10;   )
            {   
                sum1 = sum1 + optionOne;
                sum2 = sum2 + optionTwo * 2;
                increment++;
            } 
     
            System.out.println(sum1);
            System.out.println(sum2);
     
     
        }
    }


    Here is my output!
    1000.0
    20.0

    Okay 20.0 should really be 1023.00 but I don't know how to make the value multiple itself and then add it to the sum. Is there any suggestions? FYI I already written the arithmetic but the coding portion is giving me a hard time.


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    Default Re: Need help with a java statement.

    I already written the arithmetic
    Could you post the formulas that you have found?

    Write a line for 1 day
    and another line for the 2nd day
    and another for the 3rd

    and see it what the pattern is so you can code it in a loop.
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    Default Re: Need help with a java statement.

    Okay well its not really a formula. It just notes I wrote down out.
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    2=1*2
    4=2*2
    8=4*2
    16=8*2
    etc

    The common factor is two but after that I really don't know else to really do. I played with the java for a bit but I just don't know what else to do. Any ideas?

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    What about the pattern? Each line takes the results (first column) from the previous line and uses it as the first operand of the expression on the current line.
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    Default Re: Need help with a java statement.

    Okay.... Yeah i see that but how should I write that in java. I mean here is what I think.

    sum2 = sum2+ OptionTwo*2;

    It goes through the for loop operation but it never produces any other output except the initial answer.

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    Look at the formulas in post#3. There isn't a + operator there.

    Write the same style formulas for the statement in post#5 as those in post#3 and see the difference.
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    Default Re: Need help with a java statement.

    Well I can do that Norm. But if I do that it will just print out each individual statements instead of adding them and then printing the sum . When I was working on it I realize she wanted the total sum of the two. Not the actual print out of all the integers.

    --- Update ---

    I know Im missing something but I don't know what.

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    There are two parts:
    1) multiply last by 2
    2) sum the products
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    Default Re: Need help with a java statement.

    So I should write two parts and then display the sum. I was thinking I could put it under one statement. Is that even possible?

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    Take a piece of paper and work out the possibilities.
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    okay Ill try that thanks again

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