Introduction to Computer Science I

  Homework 5

Due by 1:30pm on Tuesday, February 8


Reading

Read Chapter 5 of the textbook and the week 6 lecture notes.

Midterm exam practice

The midterm exam is scheduled for Thursday, Feb 10. A practice midterm exam will be assigned during the lab session on Tuesday, February 8. The link to the practice exam will be posted here. Solutions will be posted on D2L on Tuesday, right after the end of the lab.

Problems

Solve the following by implementing the corresponding functions in homework5.py. Also, document each function by writing a short docstring explaining the purpose of the function. When done, submit that file through D2L.

[Lab] Problems 5.31, 5.32, 5.43, 5.46.

Also problems 5.38, 5.42, as well as the following additional problem:

Additional Problem:   Bill and Ted are taking a road trip. But the odometer in their car is broken, so they don't know how many miles they have driven. Fortunately, Bill has a working stopwatch, so they can record their speed and the total time they have driven. Unfortunately, their record keeping strategy is a little odd, so they need help computing the total distance driven. You are to write a program to do this computation.

For example, if their log shows

Speed in miles per hour
Total elapsed time in hours
20
2
30
6
10
7


this means they drove 2 hours at 20 miles per hour, then 6-2=4 hours at 30 miles per hour, then 7-6=1 hour at 10 miles per hour. The distance driven is then (2)(20) + (4)(30) + (1)(10) = 40 + 120 + 10 = 170 miles. Note that the total elapsed time is always since the beginning of the trip, not since the previous entry in their log.

You will implement a function speed() that will help Bill and Ted compute the distance they traveled on several road trips. The input will come from file speed.txt and consists of one or more data sets where each data set represents a separate road trip. Each set starts with a line containing an integer n, 1 ≤ n ≤ 10,  followed by n pairs of values, one pair per line. The first value in a pair, s, is the speed in miles per hour and the second value, t, is the total elapsed time. Both s and t are integers, 1 ≤ s ≤ 90 and 1 ≤ t ≤ 12.  The values for t are always in strictly increasing order. A value of -1 for n signals the end of the input.

For each input set, output on the screen the distance driven, followed by a space, followed by the word "miles". The output for input file should be:
Usage:
>>> speed()
170 miles
180 miles
90 miles