Question

You can estimate the total number of text messages you send and receive in a year as follows:

• Count up the number of text messages sent and received during the one-hour period of a typical day when you do the most texting; then ...
• Multiply that count by 13, and multiply that result by 365, the number of days in a year.

13 is a guesstimate or SWAG for the ratio of the total number of messages sent and received in a day to the number of messages sent and received during the peak hour of texting activity.

Design a program, using pseudocode or a flowchart, that asks the user to enter the number of text messages sent and received for their peak one-hour of texting on a typical day. Use that value to calculate and report out an estimate of how many text messages that person sends and receives in a year.

To get full credit for this problem you must use a named constant for the number of days in a year and a named constant the 13 total day to peak hour ratio. If you believe you have a better guess for that ratio go ahead and use it.

Second Part: Write a Python program based on your design for estimating yearly text messages per the prior problem statement.

Answer 1

Hi,

Please find the pseudocode below.

1>This program will calculate the number of messages sent and received in an year.
2> Take the no of messages sent and received in a day from user as integer input.
3> Take 13 as the count as an estimate to no of messages send and received in a day.
4> Take 365 as a constant which is number of days in a year.
5> Finally no of messages in year = userInputofnoofdays*13*365.
6> display the final no of messages calculated.

Python program below:

print("Program to calculate total no of messages sent in an year")
input_a = input("Enter the no of text messages sent during peak hours : ")
# type cast into integer
input_a = int(input_a)
# print data type
print(input_a)

SWAGGuesstimate = 13
noOfDaysInAYear = 365

totalNoOfMessagesSentInAYear = input_a*SWAGGuesstimate*noOfDaysInAYear

print("Total no of messages sent in an year =",totalNoOfMessagesSentInAYear)

python code screenshot:

output attached:

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