Subj : Help with a little project...
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Dan Egli
Date : Sat Apr 03 2004 11:15 am

 -=> Quoting Sean Dennis to All <=-

 SD> What I'm trying to figure out (and here's where my poor math skills
 SD> come into play) is how I can take a score on a fourteen-question test
 SD> and compute it so I can get a percentage from 0 to 100 and put it
 SD> against a grading scale for a letter grade.  For some reason, this
 SD> escapes me.


Ok. Your Percentage is:

(Num Right/14)*100
I.e. (10/14)*100. Rounded to the nearest 10th of a %, that's 71.5%

Now assign a upper and lower boundry to each grade. For example: A=100%-85%
B=84%-70%
etc.....

then it's just a simple nested if else statement set.

if (Grade > GRADE_A) then
  ....
else
  if (GRADE > GRADE_B) then
    ....
  else
  ......


where GRADE_A and GRADE_B are constants (or variables) containing the lower 
boundry for each grade.

Hope that helps you!
-+- Dan

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