Practice
House Room Area Report
2024/Oct/Nov·Variant 2·Q11·[15 marks]
HARD2D Arrays
A house has between 3 and 6 rooms. Read the number of rooms (re-read until it is in range). For each room, read its name, length in metres, and width in metres. Store the area in a second index of a 2D array as length × width.
Then output every room's name, length, width, and area, followed by:
- the name of the largest room
- the name of the smallest room
- the total area
- the average area, rounded to 2 decimal places
If two rooms share the same extreme area, keep the first one found.
Input: Room count (validated 3–6), then name, length, width for each room. Output: One block per room, then the four summary lines.
Example:
Input: 3
Kitchen
4
5
Store
3
3
Lounge
6
4
Output: Room: Kitchen
Length: 4 metres
Width: 5 metres
Area: 20 square metres
Room: Store
Length: 3 metres
Width: 3 metres
Area: 9 square metres
Room: Lounge
Length: 6 metres
Width: 4 metres
Area: 24 square metres
Largest: Lounge
Smallest: Store
Total area: 53
Average area: 17.67
Sample Test Cases
Test 1: Three rooms, lounge largest
Inputs: 3, Kitchen, 4, 5, Store, 3, 3, Lounge, 6, 4
Expected: Room: Kitchen
Length: 4 metres
Width: 5 metres
Area: 20 square metres
Room: Store
Length: 3 metres
Width: 3 metres
Area: 9 square metres
Room: Lounge
Length: 6 metres
Width: 4 metres
Area: 24 square metres
Largest: Lounge
Smallest: Store
Total area: 53
Average area: 17.67
Test 2: Invalid count 2 rejected, then four rooms
Inputs: 2, 4, A, 2, 2, B, 2, 2, C, 3, 3, D, 1, 1
Expected: Room: A
Length: 2 metres
Width: 2 metres
Area: 4 square metres
Room: B
Length: 2 metres
Width: 2 metres
Area: 4 square metres
Room: C
Length: 3 metres
Width: 3 metres
Area: 9 square metres
Room: D
Length: 1 metres
Width: 1 metres
Area: 1 square metres
Largest: C
Smallest: D
Total area: 18
Average area: 4.5