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Denizcan Durgun
Courses Plus Student 268 PointsWhere is my fault?
float radius = 14.5; printf(" A ball with a radius of 14.5 inches.float radius = 14.5");
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Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsYour first statement looks good.
The printf statement is the problem. It looks like you're trying to re-create the radius variable again which you don't need to do.
They specify the output should be A ball with a radius of 14.5 inches.
The first argument to printf is a format string. This describes what the output is going to look like.
We can use the following format string "A ball with a radius of %f inches." The %f is a format specifier which indicates that a float value is going to be inserted there.
printf can then take additional arguments whose values will be inserted where the specifiers are.
Here's the full printf statement:
printf("A ball with a radius of %f inches.", radius);
Notice the comma and then the second argument passed in is the variable which contains the value that we would like to be inserted where the %f is.
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