{"id":216507,"date":"2025-05-19T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=216507"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:33:13","slug":"a-telephone-company-charges-to-cents-per-minutefor-all-calls-outside-the-customers-area-code-that-last-over-20-minutes-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/a-telephone-company-charges-to-cents-per-minutefor-all-calls-outside-the-customers-area-code-that-last-over-20-minutes-13\/","title":{"rendered":"A telephone company charges to cents per minutefor all calls outside the customers area code that last over 20 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A telephone company charges to cents per minutefor all calls outside the customers area code that last over 20 minutes .All other calls are 13 percents minute.Fields for each call include customer area code (three digits),customer phone number (seven digits),called area code (three digits),called number(seven digits)and called time in minutes(four digits).Display the customer area code,customer phone number,called area code,called number,called time in minutes and the total charge.Draw the flowchart for this program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve the problem, we need a program that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accepts inputs:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Customer area code (3 digits)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customer phone number (7 digits)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Called area code (3 digits)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Called number (7 digits)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Call time in minutes (up to 4 digits)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applies the correct rate logic:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If <strong>called area code is different<\/strong> from the <strong>customer area code<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> the call lasts <strong>more than 20 minutes<\/strong>, charge <strong>2 cents per minute<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Otherwise, charge <strong>13 cents per minute<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computes and displays:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Customer area code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customer phone number<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Called area code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Called number<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Call duration in minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total charge (in cents)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 <strong>Correct Sample Logic<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a step-by-step explanation with pseudocode, followed by the flowchart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd04 Pseudocode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>START\nINPUT customer_area_code\nINPUT customer_phone_number\nINPUT called_area_code\nINPUT called_number\nINPUT call_time_in_minutes\n\nIF called_area_code \u2260 customer_area_code AND call_time_in_minutes &gt; 20 THEN\n    charge_per_minute = 2\nELSE\n    charge_per_minute = 13\nEND IF\n\ntotal_charge = call_time_in_minutes * charge_per_minute\n\nDISPLAY customer_area_code, customer_phone_number\nDISPLAY called_area_code, called_number\nDISPLAY call_time_in_minutes\nDISPLAY total_charge\nEND\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83e\udde0 <strong>Explanation (300 words)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of this program is to compute the telephone charges for a given call based on specific billing rules. Calls are categorized into two types based on the <strong>area code<\/strong> and <strong>call duration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a call is made <strong>outside the customer\u2019s area code<\/strong> and lasts <strong>more than 20 minutes<\/strong>, it is considered a discounted long-distance call, and the telephone company charges a reduced rate of <strong>2 cents per minute<\/strong>. For all other calls \u2014 either local calls (same area code) or shorter long-distance calls (20 minutes or less) \u2014 the rate is <strong>13 cents per minute<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program starts by collecting five key inputs: customer\u2019s area code and phone number, the called party\u2019s area code and phone number, and the call duration in minutes. It then checks the conditions. If both the area codes are different and the call time exceeds 20 minutes, it assigns the reduced rate. Otherwise, the regular rate is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the rate is determined, the program calculates the total charge by multiplying the rate by the duration in minutes. Finally, it displays all relevant call information, including the total charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program ensures accurate billing based on a clear decision structure and helps customers understand why a particular rate was applied. It can be used in telecommunications systems to automate billing and reduce manual errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd01 <strong>Flowchart<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll now generate a flowchart for the above logic.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A telephone company charges to cents per minutefor all calls outside the customers area code that last over 20 minutes .All other calls are 13 percents minute.Fields for each call include customer area code (three digits),customer phone number (seven digits),called area code (three digits),called number(seven digits)and called time in minutes(four digits).Display the customer area code,customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}