Structures Practice Exercise

C Practice Exercise (Structures).

1) i) Define the term structure as used in C++ programming. (2 marks)
ii) A program is required that reads the names and average mark of a number of
students and assigns each of them a grade. The program should have a structure called
students with the following members.
fname (first name) – an array of characters.
avg_mark (Average mark) – a floating-point number.
grade – a character.
Using the above specifications, write a program that reads the names and average
marks of 40 students and assigns each of them a grade and then outputs all this details
in a suitable format. The grading system is given below.
Average Mark Order of Merit
80 – 100 A
70 – 80 B
60 – 70 C
50 – 60 D
0 – 50 E
(15 marks)
2) a) Write a structure declaration for a structure called Details with the following
members: -
adm_no – an array of characters.
name – an array of characters.
age – an integer.
height – a floating point number.
fee_balance – a floating point number (4 marks)
b) Write a declaration statement for a structure variable called student of the structure
defined in (a) above. (1 mark)
c) Using the variable declared in (b) above write C statements to do each of the
following.
i) Access the structure member age and assigns it the value 25. (2 marks)
ii) Read a value entered via the keyboard and save it in the structure member name.
(2
marks)
iii) Increase the value stored in the structure member fee_balance by 12500. (2 marks)
iv) Print the value stored in the structure member height on the screen. (2 marks)
3) a) Write a structure declaration for a structure called Employee with the following
members: -
emp_no – an array of characters.
f_name (first name) – an array of characters.
s_name (surname name) – an array of characters.
no_of_kids – an integer.
height – a floating point number.

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basic_salary – a floating point number (4 marks)

b) Write a declaration statement for a structure variable called emp_1 of the structure
defined in (a) above. (1 mark)
c) Using the variable declared in (b) above write C statements to do each of the
following.
i) Access the structure member no_of_kids and assigns it the value 4. (2 marks)
ii) Read a value entered via the keyboard and save it in the structure member height.
(2
marks)
iii) Reduce the value stored in the structure member basic_salary by 1500. (2 marks)
iv) Print the value stored in the structure member s_name on the screen. (2 marks)
4) A program is needed to keep track of the following details for employees in an
organization:-
Employee number, Employee Surname, Employee Middle Name, Basic salary,
Allowances and Net Salary
The following information is also provided:
Net Salary = Gross Salary – Tax
Gross Salary = Basic Salary + Allowances
Tax Amount = tax rate/100 * Gross Salary
The following classification is used:
Gross Salary Tax Rate
<10000 5%
10000 – 20000 10%
>20000 15%
Required:
Write a program that uses a structure and reads the above details through the
keyboard and computes the net salary and gives the output in a suitable format. Your
output should consist of Employee number, Employee Surname, Employee Middle
Name, Basic salary, Allowances, Gross Salary and Net Salary. NB: The user should
decide how many employees he wants to work with. (18 marks)
5) Given the following declaration and initialization statements
int x = 8, h = 6, p = 9;
float y = 4;
Evaluate the value of x in each of the statements below.
i) x += h%2 * p--;
ii) x – = p%y + --h;
iii) x %= --h + z * p-- % h;
iv) x *= ++h + y + p++; (4 marks)

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