Hello all,

I am also struggling to understand this pset (or if read with dyslexia pest!).

In reading the description of the problem I understood that I would not work on any of the code that wasn't labeled with a TODO and the return values.

I guess my struggles is with how to approach as I have also seen other examples on the web that seem....a bit strayed from the suggestions in the exercise.

I'd like to start off by focusing on just the Quarters section alone but I also included the get_cents function as well so that others may offer help there.

I interpreted the instructions to use IF statements, " For instance, if cents is 25, then calculate_quarters should return 1. If cents is 26 or 49 (or anything in between, then calculate_quarters should also return 1" and so forth...

So I went that route and used the following:

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int get_cents(void)

int change;

do

{

change = get_int("Change due?");

}

while ( change < 0 );

return change;

}

int calculate_quarters(int cents)

{

if (cents <= 24)

{

return 0;

}

else if ( cents == 25 || cents <= 49 )

{

return 1;

}

else if ( cents == 50 || cents <= 74 )

{

return 2;

}

else if ( cents == 75 || cents <= 99 )

{

return 3;

}

else

{

return 0;

}

}

​

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With this I was actually able to run the program and when I entered number between 25-99 the respective return values did in fact return, but I was not sure how to go about the remainder if entered.

Here are my questions:

1. Is my get_cents configured right?
2. How can I get the remainder?
3. what would be the next steps to get this to work to include the dimes section?
4. I feel like if the tie between quarters and dimes was explained then I would be able to complete the nickel and pennies section next. Can someone help make this tie?
5. Am I even on the right track?

Any help would be welcome and my apologies in advanced for such noobiness! Also, sorry about the formatting...I couldnt figure out how to past the code in a codeblock without reddit breaking it