PIC20A HW1: Are you overweight?

PIC20A

HW 1: Are you overweight?

Assignment

This is a very easy Homework. You are going to write a program to calculate Body Mass Index. Then tell the user if he/she is overweight or not.
Body Mass Index is given by

Your Weight (in pounds) x 704.5 divided by (Your Height (in inches) x Your Height (in inches))

Here is a table from this link.

Adults BMI:	Women	Men
underweight	< 19.1	< 20.7
in normal range	19.1 - 25.8	20.7 - 26.4
marginally overweight	25.8 - 27.3	26.4 - 27.8
overweight	27.3 - 32.3	27.8 - 31.1
very overweight or obese	> 32.3	> 31.1

Sample Program

You can download the program BMI.class on your computer. After you download it, open a DOS prompt, use cd to change to the correct folder.

Sample Section

java BMI gender height(in inches) weight(in pounds)
gives the body mass index of the given height and weight.
gender is a character (m, M, f, F).
height and weight are doubles.
You can assume the user uses the correct syntax. i.e. you don't have to do error checking.

java BMI m 78 200
Your Body Mass Index is 23.159105851413543
You have a healthy weight.

java BMI f 60 88
Your Body Mass Index is 17.22111111111111
You are underweight.

java BMI F 67 166.5
Your Body Mass Index is 26.130374248162173
You are marginally overweight.

java BMI M 85 320
Your Body Mass Index is 31.202768166089964
You are very overweight.

java BMI m 72 220
Your Body Mass Index is 29.897762345679013
You are overweight.

What to submit

Call your source code file BMI.java. Put this file in your submit folder. Do not place this file inside another folder within your submit folder.

Remark

All source code submitted must contain the following information at the beginning of each file:
- Your full name
- Your student ID number
- Your PIC login ID
- Your e-mail address
- Your discussion section number and TA's name
- The assignment number and description
- Honesty pledge

Properly formatted, this information should appear as follows:(Please change the Name, Student ID, PIC ID, E-mail, Discussion

/** Name:        Charles Li 
  * Student ID : 000 000 000   
  * PIC ID:      ccli 
  * E-mail:      ccli@math.ucla.edu 
  * Discussion:	 1A, Baber
  * Assignment:	 hw1 
  * 
  * I, Charles Li, pledge that this is my own independent work, which  
  * conforms to the guidelines of academic honesty as described in the course  
  * syllabus.  
  * 
  */

If you develop your program on your home computer, make sure it compiles and runs on the lab machines before you turn it in.
Please use consistent and neat indenting in all your programs.
Please comment your program.

Solution

BMI.java