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Exercises for Programmers
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Exercises for Programmers

by Brian P. Hogan
September 2015
Beginner
110 pages
2h 6m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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8Pizza Party

Division isn’t always exact, and sometimes you’ll write programs that will need to deal with the leftovers as a whole number instead of a decimal.

Write a program to evenly divide pizzas. Prompt for the number of people, the number of pizzas, and the number of slices per pizza. Ensure that the number of pieces comes out even. Display the number of pieces of pizza each person should get. If there are leftovers, show the number of leftover pieces.

Example Output

 
How many people? 8
 
How many pizzas do you have? 2
 
 
8 people with 2 pizzas
 
Each person gets 2 pieces of pizza.
 
There are 0 leftover pieces.

Challenges

  • Revise the program to ensure that inputs are entered as numeric values. Don’t allow the user to proceed if the value entered ...

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