Question

A Private Poly Clinic in Oman wish to develop software to automate their Patient Monitoring system for storing the details of the patients visited the clinic. Develop a system to meet the following requirements:

1. The clinic wish to give 15% discount on the fees to be paid by the patients whose age is above 60. Develop an algorithm, flow chart and write a C program to read age of the patient and calculate the fees after the discount by writing a function with argument. Display the result with appropriate statements.

Answer 1

Algorithm for the above problem:

Take age as input from the user.

If age is greater than 60:

Subtract 15% of fees from original fee and return the fee

else i.e age is less than 60:

return the original fees.

Full Working C Code:

#include <stdio.h>
/*
Let initial fees be Rs 1000
*/
int fees = 1000;
//Method that returns the effective fees for the patient based on his age
int calculateFees(int age)
{
if(age >= 60)
{
//If age exceeds 60 the returns discounted fee
return fees - (0.15 * fees);
}
else
{
return fees;
}
}
int main() {
//Take age as input from user
   printf("What is the age of the patient?");
   int age;
   scanf("%d",&age);
   //Display the fee effective to the patient
   printf("\nEffective fees is : %d",calculateFees(age));
   return 0;
}

Output:

Run 1:

What is the age of the patient?

Input: 23

Effective fees is : 1000

Run 2:

What is the age of the patient?

Input: 67

Effective fees is : 850

Flowchart: