CSCI 116

Project #2: Unit Conversions

Purpose: To practice doing simple input and output and arithmetic using variables.

Program objective: Your program is to take a speed in units of miles per hour and convert it to the equivalent speed in units of furlongs per fortnight.

Instructions: Write a program that asks the user to a speed in miles per hour. Your program should then read the speed and echo it back out. It should then convert the speed to furlongs per fortnight, and print the results of the conversion. After printing out the results, your program should exit normally. Here is some sample output:

Enter a speed (miles/hour): 60

60mph is 161280 furlongs/fortnight

Press any key to continue

Of course, to be able to do this conversion, we need to know how many furlongs per fortnight 1 mile per hour actually is. A fortnight is two weeks or 14 days, while a furlong is 220 yards, or 660 feet. So if I have x miles per hour, then that becomes

so to convert from miles per hour to furlongs per fortnight, I just multiply miles per hour by , or , or 2688.

That should about cover it…have fun!