MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS, CHARACTERS, AND STRINGS - Introduction to Java Programming: Comprehensive Version - page 156

Enter string s1: ABCD
Enter string s2: BDC
BDC is not a substring of ABCD

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( Financial application: payroll ) Write a program that reads the following infor-
mation and prints a payroll statement:

Employee's name (e.g., Smith)
Number of hours worked in a week (e.g., 10)
Hourly pay rate (e.g., 9.75)
Federal tax withholding rate (e.g., 20%)
State tax withholding rate (e.g., 9%)
A sample run is shown below:

Enter employee's name: Smith
Enter number of hours worked in a week: 10
Enter hourly pay rate: 9.75
Enter federal tax withholding rate: 0.20
Enter state tax withholding rate: 0.09

Employee Name: Smith
Hours Worked: 10.0
Pay Rate: $9.75
Gross Pay: $97.5
Deductions:
Federal Withholding (20.0%): $19.5
State Withholding (9.0%): $8.77
Total Deduction: $28.27
Net Pay: $69.22

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( Order three cities ) Write a program that prompts the user to enter three cities and
displays them in ascending order. Here is a sample run:

Enter the first city: Chicago
Enter the second city: Los Angeles
Enter the third city: Atlanta
The three cities in alphabetical order are Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles

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( Generate vehicle plate numbers ) Assume a vehicle plate number consists of three
uppercase letters followed by four digits. Write a program to generate a plate
number.

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( Financial application: monetary units ) Rewrite Listing 2.10, ComputeChange.
java, to fix the possible loss of accuracy when converting a float value to an int
value. Read the input as a string such as "11.56" . Your program should extract
the dollar amount before the decimal point and the cents after the decimal amount
using the indexOf and substring methods.