Question

..Construct a solution algorithm for the following problem. Your solution should contain \:

.Defining diagram

.Pesudo code algorithm

.Desk checking of the algorithm (three test case for each question including one "Invalid" Desk Checking)

A transaction record on a sales commission file contains the retail price of an item sold, a transaction code which indicates the sales commission category to which an item can belong and the employee number of the person who sold the item. The transaction code can contain the values A, B or C which indicate that the percentage commission will be 6%,8% or 10%respectively..Construct an algorithm that will read a record on the file, calculate the commission owing for that record and print the retail price, commission and employee number

Answer 1

Algorithm:

To read the transaction file, calculate commission and print the information.

Input: Transaction file

Output: Retail Price, Commission, Employee number

Start.

1. Read the data file.

2. Create a dictionary with A, B and C as keys and 0.06, 0.08 and 0.10 as respective values.

3. Loop over the data rows.

4. For each row calculate commission by multiplying retail price with value at transaction code key of dictionary.

5. Print the retail price, commission and employee number

6. End Loop

STOP

Pseudo Code:

This program will allow user to read a sales transaction file and

calculate the commission and print the required information.

Read the data file and store the data in f.

define a dictionary code = {A:0.06, B:0.08, C:0.1}

FOR each row in f:

       com = retailprice * code[transactioncode]

       print ("Retail Price = " retailprice)

       print ("Commission = " com )

       print ("Employee Number = " eno)

ENDFOR