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RandomnessRamen (7)
Complete the function definition to return the hours given minutes. Output for sample program when the user inputs 210.0:
3.5

My code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

double GetMinutesAsHours(double origMinutes) {

cout << origMinutes/60;

}

int main() {
double minutes;

cin >> minutes;

// Will be run with 210.0, 3600.0, and 0.0.
cout << GetMinutesAsHours(minutes) << endl;

return 0;
}

It’s outputs as:

3.53.03428e-86
deleted account xyzzy (5768)
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deleted account xyzzy (5768)
One problem that stands out is you contracted to return a double from your function, yet you are not returning anything. You are printing out a garbage value.

Your compiler is not doing you any favors. It should either issue a warning, or in the case of Visual Studio the code you wrote will have a compile error.

Something like this should work:
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#include <iostream>

double GetMinutesAsHours(double origMinutes)
{
   return origMinutes / 60.0;
}

int main()
{
   std::cout << "Enter the # of minutes you want converted to hours: ";
   double minutes;
   std::cin >> minutes;

   std::cout << GetMinutesAsHours(minutes) << " hours.\n";
}
Enter the # of minutes you want converted to hours: 75
1.25 hours.

Using code and output tags helps to make things much more readable.
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