Thread: Need some helping finding the lowest, highest, sum, and average.

Hello if anyone could help I would appreciate it. The issue I am having with this is that can't seem to figure out what to use for the highest, lowest, sum and average despite getting the random values to spit out.

Write a Java program that will allow a user to specify how many random numbers he/she would like to be generated between 1 and 100. Then produce the random and list them in your output. You should also compute the highest, lowest, sum and average. Output should be neat and user friendly. You may find that the output would be much nicer if you use System.out.print(); instead of ptintln(). Using print() will keep the next thing printed on the same line and look like this: 123456. Then you could use commas to separate the numbers like 1,2,3,4.
(needs to be between 10 and 20 numbers)

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
 
public class Looper
{   
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
         Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
         Random rnd = new Random();  
         int r;
 
         System.out.println("Please enter enter how many numbers "
                 + "you would like to generate.");
 
         int userInput = sc.nextInt();
 
         for(r=1;r<userInput;r++) 
        {  // was unsure how to remove the comma from the last number
            System.out.print((int)(rnd.nextFloat()*100)+1 + ",");            
        }      
    }
}

what to use for the highest, lowest, sum and average

Ok work on one of those at a time.
I think the easiest would be the sum. See if you can write a loop to sum the values.
Then the average would be the sum divided by the count.

I need a something to hold them

Define a variable outside of the loop (same as r) and inside the loop add each random number to it.
You would not need a new loop. I was assuming the random numbers were to be saved in an array but I see that is not the case.

Ok, try lowest. Use a variable to hold the lowest value found so far. Compare each new number against it and save if lower.

You also could have done the average once you have the sum.

Use an if statement to compare and when true save the value.

See the tutorial on if statements: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutor...dbolts/if.html

Thank for the help Norm I have Finished this thanks to you. For anyone else who might need this (doubt they will xD) here is my final code.

 import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
 
public class Looper
{   
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
         Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
         Random rnd = new Random();
         int r;
         int sum = 0;
         int lowest=0;
         int highest=0;
 
         System.out.println("Please enter enter how many numbers "
                 + "you would like to generate.");
 
         int userInput = sc.nextInt();
 
         for(r=1;r<=userInput;r++) 
        {  // was unsure how to remove the comma from the last number
            int randomInt = (int)(rnd.nextFloat()*100)+1;            
            System.out.print(randomInt + ",");
 
            sum += randomInt;
 
            if(r == 1 || randomInt < lowest)
            {
                lowest = randomInt;
            }      
 
            if(r == 1 || randomInt > highest)
            {
                highest = randomInt;
            }            
        }    
         System.out.println(" The total sum of these random numbers are " 
                 +sum + ".");
         int average = sum / userInput;
         System.out.println("The average of all those numbers is "
                 + average + ".");
         System.out.println("The lowest number is " + lowest + ".");
         System.out.println("The higest number is " + highest + ".");
    }

What is the starting value in lowest? Are there any random numbers that will be less than its initial value?
Try a different starting value.