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Thread: Finding the Average

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    Default Finding the Average

    I'm trying to find the average of "pressure" in the code. However, "pressure" is an array. My main question is: how would I find the average of the numbers in an array?
    In the code, there area that contains the array "pressure" is all the way towards the bottom.

    import java.util.Scanner;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.IOException;
    public class Hurricanes2
    {
        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
        {
            Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new File("hurcdata2.txt"));
            int numLines = 0;
     
     
            while(inFile.hasNextLine()) 
            { 
                inFile.nextLine(); 
                numLines++; 
            } 
            inFile.close(); 
            inFile = new Scanner(new File("hurcdata2.txt")); 
     
            int [] years = new int[numLines]; 
            String [] name = new String [numLines];
            int [] category = new int [numLines];
            int [] pressure = new int [numLines];
            double [] wind = new double [numLines];
            String [] month = new String [numLines];
     
            System.out.printf("%45s\n", "Hurricanes 1980 - 2006");
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("Year     Hurricane     Category     Pressure (mb)     Wind Speed (mph)");
            System.out.println("=======================================================================");
     
            int i=0; 
            while(inFile.hasNext()) 
            { 
                years[i] = inFile.nextInt(); 
                month[i] = inFile.next(); 
                pressure[i] = inFile.nextInt(); 
                wind[i] = inFile.nextDouble(); 
                name[i] = inFile.next(); 
                i++; 
            } 
            inFile.close(); 
     
            int cat1 = 0;
            int totalCat = 0;
     
            for(int m = 0; m < wind.length; m++)
            {
                wind[m] = wind[m] * 1.15;
     
     
                if(wind[m]>=74 && wind[m]<=95)
                {
                   category[m] = 1;
                   totalCat++;
                }
                else if(wind[m]>=96 && wind[m]<=110)
                {
                   category[m] = 2;
                   totalCat+=2;
                }
                else if(wind[m]>=111 && wind[m]<=130)
                { 
                   category[m] = 3;
                   totalCat+=3;
                }  
                else if(wind[m]>=131 && wind[m]<=155)
                {  
                   category[m] = 4;
                   totalCat+=4;
                }
                else
                {
                   category[m] = 5;
                   totalCat+=5;
                } 
     
     
            }
     
            double avgCategory = (double)totalCat/category.length;
            int totalPres = 0;
     
            for(int p = 0; p < pressure.length; p++)
            {
                totalPres++;
            }
     
            double avgPressure = (double)totalPres/pressure.length;
     
     
            for(int n = 0; n < years.length; n++)
            {
                System.out.printf("%1d %12s %10d %15d %20.2f%n", years[n], name[n], category[n], pressure[n], wind[n]);
            }
     
            System.out.println("========================================================================");
            System.out.print("Average");
            System.out.printf("%21.0f %10.0f", avgCategory, avgPressure);
        }
    }


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    Default Re: Finding the Average

    What you would want to do is loop through all of the array's elements and adding them together, then divide by the amount of elements.

    int average = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < pressure.length; i++) {
       average += pressure[i];
    }
    average /= pressure.length;
    Last edited by Brt93yoda; September 16th, 2010 at 08:00 PM.

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