Here is a rough outline for the program:
DO ' ask the user for the wholesale price of an item ' get the price, put it in a variable ' compute and print out the retail price LOOP END
The steps you want to repeat are about the same as you
would do with paper and pencil.
A QBasic program can do them automatically.
The DO
... LOOP
makes the program cycle endlessly until
all the work has been completed.
Here is the program:
' Retail price calculator for 50% markup ' DO PRINT "Enter wholesale price" ' ask the user for the wholesale price INPUT WHOLESALE ' get the price, put it in a variable PRINT "Retail price:", WHOLESALE * 1.5 ' compute and print out the retail price LOOP END
Say that the first three items have wholesale prices of 100 dollars, 200 dollars, and 50 dollars. What will the monitor look like after you have entered those items?