Reference no: EM132208351

Write a Program in C (NOT C++)

You are building a mini-weather station in your apartment in Florida and want to store a series of ambient temperature readings every hour for 24 hours, and then find the average, maximum and minimum values for that day period. We start measuring at midnight (time 0:00) until midnight the following day (time: 24:00, or 0:00 the next day).

Actually, that makes it 25 readings, right?. We want to store the data collected in an array of integers called temp[], where index 0 (temp[0]) contains the reading at midnight, index 1 (temp[1]) contains the reading at 1:00 AM, index 2 is 2:00 AM and so on.

However, while we write and test the program we won't have access to the actual temperature sensor or the data acquisition system. So, we have to simulate the data collection. We can do this by generating random numbers between 60 and 100 (for degrees Fahrenheit) and inserting them into the array sequentially until we fill up the array.

(Never mind that the numbers won't be gradually increasing, peaking in the afternoon and then decreasing overnight, as one would expect ambient temperature to do.) Then, we calculate the average, maximum and minimum vales for that day and print them out as a simple table.

So, you will need to design a loop within main() to populate the array, one cell at a time. Moreover, you will need to write two programmer-defined functions:

1) The first function called get_value() will return a random integer between 60 and 100. This function will be called from main() and the value returned will be inserted into the proper location in the array.

2) The second function called calc_results(int [], int) will accept the entire array once it has been completely populated, and will identify the maximum and minimum temperatures, as well as calculate the average temperature for the day. Note that you will have to convert integer values into floating point values to calculate the average. It will also print out the 25 temperatures in a table as well as the three computed values.

The output should look like this: (assume June 30, 2017 is the day for which the values were collected):
Temperature Conditions on June 30, 2017:

Time of Day Temperature in degrees F

0 85

1 80

2 97

3 90

4 68

5 75

6 77

7 98

8 97

9 62

- -

- -

- -

24 89

Maximum Temperature for the day: <whatever> Degrees F

Minimum Temperature for the day: <whatever> Degrees F

Average Temperature for the day: <whatever.whatever> Degrees F