Thread: Stuck help please!

So I finally got the main part of my code working... have to simulate a robot taking random steps but now i cant figure out how to get the average of steps he took throughout the whole code

public class Robot {
 
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		int n=20;
		int steps=simulation(n);
		simulation(n);						//Calls the simulation method
 
	}
		public static int steps(int n){ 	//Start of method steps
			int total = 0;   				//initalizing total
			for (int i=0;i<=n;i++){			//incremental for loop
				int steps = (int) (5 * Math.random()) - 1;//determines the random number of steps
				total = total+steps;		//adds the steps per try
 
			}return total;					//returns the total number of steps
 
 
		}
		public static int simulation(int n){//Star of metod simulation
					int steps=0;
			for(int i=1;i<=n;i++){			//incremental for loop
				System.out.println("on simulation "+i+" the robot walked " //prints out the sim number total steps and in how many tries
						+steps(n)+" in "+n+" tries");
				steps= steps(n);
			}return steps;
		}
}

any ideas? i need to add the amount of steps taken per simulation, and im really not sure how.

Okay i figured out how to do the average but i dont see why im getting the simulation loop to run twice my output is 1-20 and than 1-20 again? what am i missing?

Next time surround your code in [highlight=java][/highlight] tags. The reason your code is running twice is because of these two lines:

int steps=simulation(n);
simulation(n); //Remove this line

Here is the finished code

public class Robot {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	   int steps=simulation(20);
   }
 
	public static int steps(int n){ //Start of method steps
		int total = 0; //initalizing total
		for (int i=0;i<=n;i++){ //incremental for loop
			int steps = (int) (5 * Math.random()) - 1;//determines the random number of steps
			total = total+steps; //adds the steps per try
		}	
		return total; //returns the total number of steps
}
 
	public static int simulation(int n){//Star of metod simulation
		int steps=0;
		for(int i=1;i<=n;i++){ //incremental for loop
			System.out.println("on simulation "+i+" the robot walked " //prints out the sim number total steps and in how many tries
				+steps(n)+" in "+n+" tries");
			steps= steps(n);
		}
		return steps;
	}
}