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Re: Wages not calculating correctly

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From Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject Re: Wages not calculating correctly
Date Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:04:53 -0700
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:53:39 -0700 (PDT), Simfonika Island
<simfonika@gmail.com> wrote:

>My program is not calculating the wages correctly. Can somebody please
>tell me why???

     Yes, but you need to figure it out.  I have given a big clue.

[snip]

>double overtime = 1.5;
        ^^^^^^^^
    Bad name.  It is an overtime *rate*.

[snip]

>wages = max_hours * payRate;
         ^^^^^^^^^
     Why are using this variable here?

[snip]

     If you are not indenting your code, you should.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Wages not calculating correctly Simfonika Island <simfonika@gmail.com> - 2012-04-18 13:53 -0700
  Re: Wages not calculating correctly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-18 15:04 -0700
  Re: Wages not calculating correctly Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-18 22:17 -0700
    Re: Wages not calculating correctly Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-04-19 00:58 -0500
      Re: Wages not calculating correctly Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-19 01:43 -0700
        Re: Wages not calculating correctly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-19 08:35 -0700
  Re: Wages not calculating correctly Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-18 23:35 -0700

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