Exam 4: Performing Loops

Write a program that projects sales goals for a salesperson for the next several years.The user should be prompted for a first year's merchandise sales amount and a number of years to project the goals. For the first year, the salesperson's goal is the current sales amount. After that, sales are projected to grow at a rate of 8 percent per year. You should use a do-while loop.

The while loop and the for loop are ____ loops.

The most difficult aspect of working with ____ loops is keeping track of the separate loop control variables that direct the program's execution.

Most often the evaluate part of the for statement compares the loop control variable with a ____________________ or limit.

It is preferable to initialize loop control variables at the beginning of a program.

The do-while loop is a(n) ____ loop.

What is a priming input statement?

The initialize portion of a for loop comes after the evaluate portion.

If a program runs for several seconds and appears to be doing nothing or produces repeated output, you should suspect an infinite loop.