Question

a soft drink company recently surveyed 12,467 of its customers and found that approximately 14 percent of those surveyed purchase one or more energy drinks per week of those customers who purchase energy drinks, aaproximately 64 percent of them prefer citrus flavored energy drinks. write a program that display the following:

1. the approxiamte number of customers in the survey who purchase one or more energy drinks per week
2. the approximate number of customers in the survey who prefer citrus flavored enery drinks

Answer 1

Given Information:

Total number of customers = 12,467

Customers who purchase one or more energy drinks per week = 14%

Customers who prefer citrus flavored energy drinks = 64% of customers who purchase one or more energy drinks per week

Required Information:

1. the approximate number of customers in the survey who purchase one or more energy drinks per week

2. the approximate number of customers in the survey who prefer citrus flavored energy drinks

Code with Explanation:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

   int customers = 12467;  // total no. of customers given

   int buy_drink;  // to store the number of customers who buy one or more energy drinks per week

   int citrus_drink;  // to store the number of customers who prefer citrus flavored energy drinks

 

   buy_drink = customers*0.14;  // multiply total number of customers with the % of customers who buy energy drinks

   citrus_drink = buy_drink*0.64;  // multiply no. of customers who buy one or more energy drinks per week with % of customers who prefer citrus flavor

// display the results calculated above

   cout<<"Total number of customers: "<<customers<<endl;

   cout<<"Number of customers who buy one or more drinks per week: "<<buy_drink<<endl;

   cout<<"Number of customers who prefer citrus flavored drinks per week: "<<citrus_drink<<endl;

   return 0;

}

Output:

Total number of customers: 12467

Number of customers who buy one or more drinks per week: 1745

Number of customers who prefer citrus flavored drinks per week: 1116