i am new to programming and am trying to do a weird assignment. Here are my instructions:


There is a drive-thru Car Wash that offers different services.
1) Regular Car Wash
2) Super Car Wash
3) Super Dooper Car Wash
4) Quit

The fee for each one of these services is different.
Prompt the user for type of service?
Ask the driver for his or her age?

If the user selects Regular Car Wash
Prompt the user for the number passengers in the car?


If there are more than 3 passengers
The price for the carwash is the number of passengers multiplied by the user’s age
display the price
display the grand total
Otherwise
display as many stars as the number of passengers


If the user select Super Car Wash

If the person is a senior citizen( 65 or older)
price is .50 cents multiplied by all the years in excess of 65
(Example : 67 years of age would be equal to $1.00)
otherwise
if the person’s age is even (e.g 44, 32)
display “No Charge”
otherwise
the price is equal to the person’s age
display the price
display the grand total


If the user selects Super Dooper Car Wash
Prompt for the number of passengers who are in the car(Must be less than 4:)?

If the user enters an invalid number prompt the user again.

For each passenger ask their age and their gender

if the passenger is a female
The price is the age of the passenger multiplied by $1.50
otherwise
The price is the age of the driver multiplied by $2.00

Display total for all the passengers in the car
Display Grand Total

At the end, when the user selects quit display the following pattern one character at a time (You would be displaying combinations of spaces and asterisks to come up with pattern, using two loops

*
           **
         ***
       ****

Give a grand total for everyone


Here is my code:

#include <cstdio>                                                //Header Files
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
int choice,  passengers, age, passage, a, x, y, row, space, asterisk;;
bool notValid;
char passgend, f, m;
double fee=0, grandtotal=0;

cout << "Welcome to the Fair Price Car Wash\n\n";
cout << "1)  Regular Car Wash\n";
cout << "2)  Super Car Wash\n";
cout << "3)  SuperDooper Car Wash\n";
cout << "4)  Quit\n\n\n";
cout << "Select one of the options:";
cin >> choice;

do                              //Validation for age
{
          notValid=false;
          printf ("\nHow old are you?");
          cin >> age;
               if (age<1 || age>115)
               {
                  cout << "Invalid entry.";
                  notValid=true;
               }
} while (notValid);

do                                                                 //Validation for passengers
          {
          notValid=false;
          cout << "\nHow many passengers do you have?";
          cin >> passengers;
               if (passengers <1 || passengers >10)
               {
                  cout << "Invalid entry.";
                  notValid=true;
               }
} while (notValid);

switch (choice)
{
case 1:
    if (passengers>3)
          {
          fee=passengers*age;
          grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
          printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
          cout << "\n\n";
          printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
          }
    else
          {
          for(a=0;a<passengers;a++)                             //Display as many starts as the number of passengers
          cout << "*\n";
          grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
          printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
          cout << "\n\n";
          printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
          }
break;

case 2:
grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
    if  (age>=65)
          {
          fee=(age-65)*.5;
          printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
          cout << "\n\n";
          }
    else if(age% 2 == 0)
         cout << "\nNo Charge\n";

    else
          {
          fee=age;
          grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
          printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
          printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
          printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
          cout << "\n\n";
          }
break;
case 3:

    do{
          notValid=false;
          cout << "\nHow many passengers do you have?";
          cin >> passengers;
          if (passengers >=4)
             {
             cout << "Invalid entry.";
             notValid=true;
             }
    }while (notValid);

    do{
          a=0;
          a++;
          cout << "\nEnter gender of passenger number ";
          cout << a, ":";
          cin >> passgend;
          cout << "\nEnter age of passenger number ";
          cout << a, ":";
          cin >> passage;
          if (passgend==f)
             {
             fee=passage*1.5;
             grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
             printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
             printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
             printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
             printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
             cout << "\n\n";
             }
          else
             {
             fee=2*age;
             grandtotal=grandtotal+fee;
             printf ("%30s","The price for you is $");
             printf ("%-5.2lf", fee);
             printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
             printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
             cout << "\n\n";
             }
    }while(a<passengers);
break;


case 4:
    for(row=1; row<5; row++)
             {
             for(space=0; space<4-row; space++)
             printf (" ");
             for(asterisk=1; asterisk<=row; asterisk++)
                printf("*");
             cout << endl ;
             }
    printf ("%30s","The grand total is $");
    printf ("%-5.2lf", grandtotal);
    cout << "\n\n";

default:
    cout << "Invalid entry\n\n";

system("pause");

}

}

Why does my program stop after the validation? And why does it still display input prompts when I select #4?

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>>Why does my program stop after the validation
Because you didn't tell it to loop back to the beginning of main(). If you want the program to execute all that code again you have to put the code in a big loop. My suggestion is to put it in another function and just call it from main()

int prompts()
{
   // display prompts and validate -- line 9 thru 155 of the code you popsted

   return choice;
}

int main()
{
   while( prompts() != 4)
   {

    }
    return 0;
}

Thanks for answering. I haven't learned how to do that yet. What exactly is int prompts ()?

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