OCR town are holding an election with three candidates (A, B and C) - OCR - GCSE Computer Science - Question 8 - 2018 - Paper 1
Question 8
OCR town are holding an election with three candidates (A, B and C). An electronic voting booth will be used to allow people to vote.
Write an algorithm that:
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Worked Solution & Example Answer:OCR town are holding an election with three candidates (A, B and C) - OCR - GCSE Computer Science - Question 8 - 2018 - Paper 1
Step 1
Initialisation of A, B and C as zero
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Set countA = 0, countB = 0, countC = 0
Set totalVotes = 0
Step 2
Allows input of (anything) from the user
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While true:
vote = input("Enter A, B or C (or type 'END' to finish): ")
Step 3
Incrementing A, B and C depending on input
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If vote == "A":
countA += 1
totalVotes += 1
Else if vote == "B":
countB += 1
totalVotes += 1
Else if vote == "C":
countC += 1
totalVotes += 1
Else if vote == "END":
break
Step 4
Prints out 3 individual counts and prints calculated total count
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Print("Total votes for A: ", countA)
Print("Total votes for B: ", countB)
Print("Total votes for C: ", countC)
Print("Total votes overall: ", totalVotes)
