SOLUTIONS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS:  Chapter 7  

II. General Questions 

 

	A = 3, B = 2, X = 5 (PIC for each is 99V99)
	COBOL Statement	Result In	Contents
1.	ADD A B GIVING X	X	05Ù 00
2.	ADD A B TO X ON SIZE ERROR MOVE ZERO TO X	X	10Ù 00
3.	DIVIDE A INTO B ROUNDED	B	00Ù 67

4. MULTIPLY MPG BY GAS GIVING MILES-TRAVELED

5. COMPUTE Y = (A + B) ** 2 / X

6. Correct.

7. The receiving field cannot be a literal.

8. AMT cannot be followed by a period. Only with a COBOL 85 compiler can both TO and GIVING be used in the same ADD statement.

9. DIVIDE and MULTIPLY operations cannot be performed inthe same statement. It should be:
              DIVIDE A BY B
              MULTIPLY B BY C

10. ROUNDED must appear to the left of the equal sign in a COMPUTE statement.