I do not know how to initialize the two variables

Hi, Your class will have an additional method that computes and returns the actual cost per month. This is defined as the total cost divided by the number of months.
I do not know how to initialize the two variables. help me please
this is my code:

Code:

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public class LeaseEval
 {
        private String custName; // customer's name
        private double monthPay; // monthly payment
        private int termLease; // the term of the lease in months
        private double downPay; // down payment
        private int maxFreeMiles; // maximun amount of free miles
        private int overMaxMiles; // The charge per mile for all miles over the max
        private double milesDriven; // The number of miles actually driven
       
        // I create a constructor
       
        public LeaseEva(String theCustName, double theMonthPay, int theTermLease,
        double theDownPay, int theMaxFreeMiles, int theOverMaxMiles, double theMilesDriven)
        {
                custName = theCustName;
                monthPay = theMonthPay;
                termLease = theTermLease;
                downPay = theDownPay;
                maxFreeMiles = theMaxFreeMiles;
                overMaxMiles = theOverMaxMiles;
                milesDriven = theMilesDriven;
                               
        }       
       
        // Here are the "gets" for the variables
       
        public String getTheCustName()
        {
                return custName;
        }
       
        public double getTheMonthPay()
        {
                return monthPay;
        }
       
        public int getTheTermLease()
        {
                return termLease;
        }
       
        public double getTheDownPay()
        {
                return downPay;
        }
       
        public int getTheMaxFreeMiles()
        {
                return maxFreeMiles;
        }
       
        public int getTheOverMaxMiles()
        {
                return overMaxMiles;
        }
       
        public double getTheMilesDriven()
        {
                return milesDriven;
        }
       
        // the mathematical part of the program is here
       
        public double costperMonth()
        {
                double totalCost;
                double numMonths;
                double costMonth;
               
                                // THESE TWO VARIABLES
                      totalCost =
                      numMonths =
               
                costMonth = totalCost/numMonths;
                return costMonth;
        }
 }

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Thanks.
Daniel:o

It would help to see the math involved. That is, based on the variable names it is a bit tough to determine the algorithm to use. The biggest thing I don't know is the length of time in months. We need a start month and year if you want to compare it to, for example, today.
But totalCost might be something like:

Code:

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totalCost = downPay + monthPay * numMonths;  // again, this has to be figured out
 
 if( milesDriven > maxFreeMiles )
    totalCost += (milesDriven - maxFreeMiles ) * overMaxMiles;

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Albert:rolleyes:

This should be better:

Code:

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public double getcostperMonth()
        {
                double totalCost;
                double numMonths;
                double costMonth;
               
                totalCost = downPay + (monthPay * termLease);
                  totalCost += (milesDriven - maxFreeMiles ) * overMaxMiles;
                double costperMonth = totalCost / termLease;
 
                return costperMonth;
               
        }

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Greetings.

Marcus:cool: