your program will not even compile correctly so why are you trying to run it. arrays can not be allocated the way you are attempting in line 4 below. You need to make variable tests a pointer and use new to allocate the memory after line 6, at which time the value of numScores will be known.

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int main()
{
    int numScores;
    int tests[numScores];
    cout << "Enter the number of test scores:";
    cin >> numScores;

int main() { int numScores; int tests[numScores]; cout << "Enter the number of test scores:"; cin >> numScores;