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Thread: Estimating the adult height of a child

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    Question Estimating the adult height of a child

    I am trying to write a program that takes as input the gender of a child, the height of the mother in inches, and the height of the father in inches, and outputs the estimated adult height of the child in inches. I think I have to use a loop, but not sure. Also getting illegal start type error's and cannot find symbol errors. Here is what I have so far

    package labassignment3;
    /**
    *
    * @author Edgar
    */
    import java.util.Scanner;

    public class LabAssignment3 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    String line;
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Enter the gender of your child:");
    line = keyboard.nextLine();
    System.out.println("Enter your mother's height in inches:");
    line = keyboard.nextLine();
    System.out.println("Enter the height of your father in inches:");
    line = keyboard.nextLine();
    //System.exit(0);
    int maleChild = 0;
    int femaleChild = 0;
    int H_Mother = 0;
    int H_Father = 0;

    // This is the mathmatical formula for a male child
    //maleChild H_Mother * 13/12)+ H_Father)/2;
    //This is the formula for female child
    //femaleChild = ((H_Father * 12/13)+ H_Mother)/2;
    }
    if (keyboard.nextLine == female)
    System.out.println("Enter the height of your father in inches:");
    System.out.println("Enter your mother's height in inches:");

    else
    {
    (keyboard.nextLine == male)
    System.out.println("Enter your mother's height in inches:");
    System.out.println("Enter the height of your father in inches:");
    System.out.println(((H_Mother * 13/12)+ H_Father)/2);
    }
    }


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    Default Re: Estimating the adult height of a child

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