Question

You want to decide whether you should drive your car to work or take the train. You know the one-way distance from your home to your place of work, and the fuel efficiency of your car (in miles per gallon). You also know the one-way price of a train ticket. You assume the cost of gas at $4 per gallon, and car maintenance at 5 cents per mile. Write an algorithm to decide which commute is cheaper.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Remember, an algorithm in simple words means a set of instructions or steps to be followed in other to solve a problem.

Note, to decide which commute is cheaper, it means the output of the algorithm should be the cheaper way to commute.

Using pseudocode do the following;

• determine the inputs and outputs of the problem
• arrange the identified problem into micro-tasks
• describe each micro-tasks in the pseudocode
• Test the pseudocode by solving the problem.