Population Projection

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February 10th, 2013, 02:19 AM

yourownreality

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Homework - Population Projection

Hello All,

I have been asked to make a program that will calculate a the population over the next 5 years.

I have been trying to get this but it seems I am off by one each year as the calculation goes.

Can someone point me in the right direction of what I am doing wrong? I tried to adjust the datatype but was not able to get a better answer.

My answer I am getting is
314812582
317592678
320372774
323152870
325932966

Code:

public class Population 
 { public static void main(String[] args) 
     { 
        int currentPopulation = 312032486; 
        int secondsInYear = 60 * 60 * 24 * 365; 
        int birthsPerYear = secondsInYear / 7;               
        int deathsPerYear = secondsInYear / 13; 
        int immigrantPerYear = secondsInYear / 45; 
        int perYearAdditions = birthsPerYear - deathsPerYear + immigrantPerYear; 
        int yearOnePopulation = currentPopulation + perYearAdditions; 

System.out.println(yearOnePopulation);  
System.out.println(yearOnePopulation + perYearAdditions); 
System.out.println(yearOnePopulation + (perYearAdditions * 2)); 
System.out.println(yearOnePopulation + (perYearAdditions * 3)); 
System.out.println(yearOnePopulation + (perYearAdditions * 4)); 
} 
}

thanks

Jerry

February 10th, 2013, 06:02 AM

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Can you add some comments to the program's output and say what the output should be?

February 10th, 2013, 06:31 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by NormR

Can you add some comments to the program's output and say what the output should be?

The programs results should match the following outputs:
314812582
317592679
320372776
323152873
325932970

I seem to be off by one per year but I dont see why.

I also looked at rewriting without variables

Code:

System.out.println(((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - ((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + ((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486);

this would output the first year but I would still need to complete this for the following 4 years.

February 10th, 2013, 06:36 PM

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You make it hard to compare the program's output to the desired output by not putting them close to each other.

For easier testing start with a simple starting population like 10000.

February 10th, 2013, 07:06 PM

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I was able to find my errors. It was suggested to me to do it with out variables to remove the datatype issues.

Code:

public class Population { 
public static void main(String[] args) { 
System.out.println(((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - ((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + ((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486); 
System.out.println((2 *(60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - 2 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + 2 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486); 
System.out.println((3 *(60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - 3 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + 3 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486); 
System.out.println((4 *(60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - 4 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + 4 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486); 
System.out.println((5 *(60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 7) - 5 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 13) + 5 *((60 * 60 * 24 * 365) / 45) + 312032486); 
} 
}

February 10th, 2013, 07:38 PM

NormR

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Makes for ugly code.

Homework - Population Projection

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