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Thread: Get percent of failing grades from an array

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    Default Get percent of failing grades from an array

    Hello everyone! I was working on a problem that I thought would be quite simple, but for some reason, my code won't return any percentage other than 0. I am supposed to return the percentage of grades that are less than 60 from an array of grades. This is what I came up with:

    public class FunctionalityTest
    {
        public float getPercentFailing(float[] grades)
        {
            int failed = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < grades.length; i++)
            {
                if (grades[i] < 60f) 
                {
                    failed += 1;
                }
            }
            return failed / grades.length;
        }
    }

    Any help or advice would be very much appreciated!
    Last edited by thom4065; February 23rd, 2013 at 04:48 PM. Reason: Thought I might not have been specific enough, so I added a few more lines of code.


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    Default Re: Get percent of failing grades from an array

    Integer arithmetic: 9/10 = 0
    float arithmetic: 9.0/10 = 0.9

    Make one of the numbers a float to get float arithmetic
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