Question

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You work in the IT group of a department store and the latest analytics shows there is a bug that
allows customers to go over their credit limit. The company's president has asked you to develop a
new algorithm to solve this problem.
Create your algorithm using pseudocode that determines if a department store customer has
exceeded their credit limit. Be sure you gather the following inputs from the user:
• Account number
• Balance of the account
• Total cost of all the products the customer is looking to purchase
• Allowed credit limit
After you gather the inputs, make sure your algorithm calculates if the user can purchase the
products and provides a message to the user indicating if the purchase is approved or declined.

Answer 1

SOLUTION:

This program verifies the credit limit of the customer to check the possibility of customer’s purchase.

Pseudocode algorithm: (refer to the screenshot for the indentation)

In the main function

{     

            print prompt "Input account number "          

            Take the account number from the user

            print prompt “Input balance of account "          

            Take the balance of the account from the user

print prompt "Input total cost of all purchases of user "          

            Take the total cost of all purchases from the user

print prompt "Input allowed credit limit of the account "          

Take the credit limit from the user

Calculate extra amount to be paid after the balance of the account is zero         

(remaining = cost of all purchases – balance of account )

if (remaining < = credit limit)

            print prompt “Purchase Approved. Credit limit NOT exceeded”

else if (remaining > credit limit)

            print prompt “Purchase Declined. Credit limit exceeded”

end

}

Screenshot Pseudocode algorithm: