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Your goal was to build
a simple Ruby program,

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that calculates the average
of some numbers.

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Here's my solution.

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It's okay if yours is slightly different,
but if you see something interesting in my

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code, you should consider borrowing
it to improve your own program.

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Okay, so to calculate an average, we need
to add the four values in the A, B, C and

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D variables together, and then divide
by 4 that's the total number of values.

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Then we need to print the result out.

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So to print it,
we're gonna need to call the puts method.

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Now the first thing you might have tried
was to simply add a + b + c + d together.

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And then divide the result by 4.

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Unfortunately, that won't work because

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what it will do is it will
add a + b + c + d / 4.

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It'll divide d by 4 first and
then add it to a, b, and c,

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which is not what you want.

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Instead, we need to take order
of operations into account.

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Ruby allows you to put math
operations within parenthesis so

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that they take place first.

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So by putting a + b + c
+ d in parentheses here.

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And then that will perform all
those additional operations first.

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Then take the results of that and
divide that by 4.

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That's what we're going to want for
calculating the average.

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Let's try running this again.

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Oops, didn't save my work first.

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One second.

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Okay, there we go.

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We're closer to what we want,
we got the number 8.

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However, as I mentioned
here in the comments,

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if you get 8 its because
we're dividing by a fixnum.

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And unfortunately,
if you divide a fixnum by a fixnum,

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ruby will truncate any fractional value
from the number to get fixnum result.

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So what we need is we need to turn
one of these numbers into a float so

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that we get a float result.

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To convert it to a float that's as simple
as adding a decimal on to the end.

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So we'll take this 4 and
turn it into a 4.0.

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That way it doesn't matter even
after the results of this addition

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here is a fixed number the results of
this the vision will still be a float.

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And that way our number
won't get truncated.

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So let's save this, run it again.

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Okay, and now we're getting
the result that we expect, 8.5.

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Now for the extra credit.

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So we said that we could prompt
the user to enter values for these four

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variables by calling gets and that we
would get a string value from gets.

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So in order to convert
that to a numeric value,

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we'll need to call to_f
on the value in gets.

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So let's make that change
up here real quick.

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We'll say, First we'll need to
print a prompt for the users.

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So we'll say puts "Please
enter four numbers".

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And now we'll say gets.to_f and

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that will convert the string
that we get back from gets to

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a float number which it will then
be stored in the a variable.

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And then we'll just do the same for
these four remaining lines so

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I'll just copy and paste.

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Okay there we go we should now have user
entry stored in those four variables and

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then will calculate an average
of those user entries.

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So let's try running our program again
please and her phone numbers and

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we'll just do the same ones we
did previously 12, 7, 5, and 10.

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And we get a result of of 8.5.

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Now lets try averaging lets say, 2, 2,

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4 and 5, and we get an average of 3.25.

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So not only is our average working,

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we seem to be able to accept
input from the user as well.

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I hope you gotten some good review
practice, see the teachers notes for

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some other experiment you might trying.

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Have fun.