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An environmental scientist records the temperature every 30 minutes everyday for 4 hours using a digital thermometer ie 8 times.
The data is input into a computer system.
If any data is greater than 28oC, then it is counted.
The computer program will output the average temperature and the number of times a temperature greater than 28oC was recorded.
Here is an algorithm, represented as pseudocode, to solve this problem.
Pseudocode
count ← 0
total ← 0
FOR i ← 0 TO 8
PRINT "Enter a temperature as a real number:"
temp ← USERINPUT
total ← total + temp
IF temp > 28.0 THEN
count = count + 1
ENDIF
NEXT i
average ← total/8
PRINT "The average temperature is ", average, " degrees Celcius"
PRINT count, "temperatures of more than 28.0 were recorded."
Use this pseudocode to write a working solution using program code. There is 1 mistake in it. Find the mistake and fix it.
Notice the structure of a for loop in pseudocode. It is quite different from Python or Java or Ruby:
FOR i ← 0 TO 8
...
NEXT i