Question

Can you find the reason that the following pseudocode function does not return the value indicated in the comments?

// The setDiscountPrice function accepts an item's price and the discount percentage

// as arguments. It uses those values to calculate and return the discounted price.

Function Real setDiscountPrice(Real price, Real percentage)

     // Set the discount.

     Declare Real discount = price * percentage

     // Subtract the discount from the price.

     Declare Real discountPrice = price - discount

     // Return the discount price.

     Return discount

End Function

Answer 1

Solution

Answer

The pseudocode should

return the discountPrice not return discount

Explanation

if you observe the pseudocode
in the commment it clearly describes return the discount price
but in the code it is mentioned
return discount
should be changed
return discountPrice

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