Classes and Objects with an External Class file - Help requested

[Alpinstang]

My java class has an assignment to write two class files, one called Vehicle and one called Cars.

• Declare a class called Vehicle that has the following double type members: fuel_cap, mpg
• Declare a public class called Cars that will create objects of the Vehicle class for each of the vehicle types shown above, then assign the variables specified to each implementation of the object variable.

We were never given an explicit example to reference and I'm having trouble finding what is wrong with my syntax. :/
Sorry for asking but this is going to happen soon

Here is the code:

import java.io.*;

public class Vehicle {
		
		public static double fuel_cap;
		public static double mpg;
		
		Vehicle()
		{
		}

 	        double CalculateToyotaRange(double fuel_cap, double mpg)
	        {
		      return(fuel_cap * mpg);
	        }	
}

public class Cars {
    public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
                Vehicle vhcl = new Vehicle();
		
		double vhcl.CalculateToyotaRange(15.0,10);
        }
}

My tabs got all messed up when I posted this, sorry it was standard.

[Norm]

Do you have a java programming question?

[Alpinstang]

Yes, do you know where I could find an example java program using an external class file?

[DarrylBurke]

As that isn't standard terminology, you need to tell us what you mean by

an external class file

db

[Alpinstang]

Here is the working code. Sorry I wasn't describing myself properly.

package Cars.Vehicle;

public class Vehicle
{
	public double fuel_cap = 0.0;
	public double mpg = 0.0;
	public double range = 0.0;
	
	public Vehicle() // constructor for class Vehicle...
	{
	}
	public double CalculateRange(double fuel_cap, double mpg)
	{
		return(fuel_cap * mpg);
	}
}

import Cars.Vehicle.*;

public class Cars
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		try
		{
			HondaRange();
			
			System.out.println("Press any key to end the program.");
			System.in.read();
		}
		catch(Exception exc)
		{
			System.out.println("Error!\n Details: " + exc);
		}
	}
	private static void HondaRange()
	{
		Vehicle vh = new Vehicle();		
		vh.fuel_cap = 15.0;				
		vh.mpg = 21.8;
		try
		{
			double range = vh.CalculateRange(vh.fuel_cap, vh.mpg);

			System.out.println("The Honda's average MPG is " + vh.mpg + ".");
			System.out.println("The Honda's fuel capacity is " + vh.fuel_cap + ".");
			System.out.println("Based on this data the Honda's max range will be " + range + ".");
		}
		catch(Exception exc)
		{
			System.out.println("There was an error calculating the Honda Range!\n Details: " + exc);
		}
	}
}

[Norm]

Here is the working code.

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