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Question 6

State the most suitable data type for the following variables used in the algorithm below.

Algorithm

stepsCount ← USERINPUT
targetSteps ← USERINPUT
averagePace ← 0.0
statusMessage ← "Activity recorded successfully"
errorMessage ← "Invalid steps entered"
IF stepsCount > 0 THEN
    IF stepsCount >= targetSteps THEN
        averagePace ← 5.2
        OUTPUT statusMessage
    ELSE
        averagePace ← (stepsCount / targetSteps) * 10
        OUTPUT averagePace
    ENDIF
ELSE
    OUTPUT errorMessage
ENDIF
Variable identifierData type
averagePace
statusMessage
[2]
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Data types Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Data types

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