From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2010-12-02T04:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: assignment reading file

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Yes, there are no restrictions on who can do this.


On 02/12/10 08:37, Derek Zoolander wrote:
> *can anyone do this ?*
>
> A TaxPayer has a name, a yearly salary and a tax credit (both
> floating-point
> values).
> The amount of tax paid by a TaxPayer is calculated as follows. 20% is
> paid on
> the first €34,000 and 41% is paid on the remainder (if any). Finally,
> the tax credit
> is deducted from this amount, but this cannot of course reduce the tax
> to less than
> zero. For example, if John has a salary of €60,000 and a tax credit of
> €5,000, his
> total tax is calculated as follows:
> 20% of €34,000: +€ 6,800
> 41% of (€60,000 – 34,000): +€ 10,660
> deduct tax credit: -€ 5,000
> Total tax due: € 12,460
> Implement in Ruby the TaxPayer class, implementing whichever methods you
> deem appropriate. Using this class, write a script that reads a name,
> salary and tax
> credit from a file called “taxpayer.dat”, and uses this data to create a
> TaxPayer
> object. Finally, the name and total tax due from this Taxpayer object
> should be
> printed to the screen.
> A sample “taxpayer.dat” input file for the above example would be:
> John
> 60000
> 5000
> (
>
> thanks
>
>    

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