Cambridge Assessment International Education

Cambridge Ordinary Level

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COMPUTER SCIENCE 2210/21

Paper 2 Problem-solving and Programming May/June 2019
1 hour 45 minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.
No calculators allowed.

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DO NOT ATTEMPT TASKS 1, 2 AND 3 in the pre-release material; these are for information only.

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Section A

You are advised to spend no longer than 40 minutes answering this section.

Here is a copy of the pre-release material.

DO NOT attempt Tasks 1, 2 and 3 now.

Use the pre-release material and your experience from attempting the tasks before the examination to
answer Question 1.

Pre-release material
The local high school uses buses to transport students to school. There are six bus routes labelled A to F. You have
conducted a survey to analyse the punctuality statistics of these buses over a four-week period. The data from the
survey are shown in the table:

Punctuality table
Day Bus A Bus B Bus C Bus D Bus E Bus F
Mon1 0 0 2 1 −1 0
Tue1 0 1 0 0 −1 −5
Wed1 0 0 −1 0 −1 −5
Thu1 2 0 −1 0 −2 −5
Fri1 2 1 −2 0 −4 −4
Mon2 4 2 −2 0 −10 −3
Tue2 0 0 −3 0 −2 −5
Wed2 3 0 −1 0 0 0
Thu2 4 0 0 0 0 0
Fri2 −2 0 0 0 0 0
Mon3 −5 1 −2 2 0 0
Tue3 0 0 0 0 1 −2
Wed3 0 0 1 0 2 −3
Thu3 3 0 1 0 −3 1
Fri3 4 2 1 0 1 1
Mon4 −1 0 1 0 1 1
Tue4 8 0 −1 0 3 0
Wed4 1 1 −1 0 −1 0
Thu4 1 0 2 0 0 −2
Fri4 −2 0 −2 0 0 −5
Positive numbers represent minutes early, negative numbers represent minutes late and 0 represents the bus having
been on time.

Write and test a program or programs for the local high school.

• Your program or programs must include appropriate prompts for the entry of data; data must be validated on
entry.
• Error messages and other output need to be set out clearly and understandably.
• All variables, constants and other identifiers must have meaningful names.

You will need to complete these three tasks. Each task must be fully tested.

Task 1 – Setting up the data storage.

Using arrays set up a system to enable data for each bus route to be entered covering each day of a four-week
period. It must be possible to enter the data supplied or your own set of data, using suitable prompts as necessary.

Task 2 – Working out the statistics.

Extend your program so that the following statistics for the four-week period may be calculated and output:
• the number of late arrivals for each bus route
• the average number of minutes late for each bus route
• the bus route with the highest number of days on which it was late
• the average number of minutes late for each bus route, using only data from days on which it was late
All the results should be displayed with appropriate annotation.

Task 3 – Checking specific days.

Extend the program as follows:
• Allow the user to input a specific day, for example Fri3, to be used for analysis of data.
• Find and display how many buses were late on this particular day.
• For each late bus, display the route label and how late the bus was on this particular day.

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1 (a) All variables, constants and other identifiers must have meaningful names.

(i) State one array you used for Task 1. State the data type and purpose of this array.

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(ii) State one variable you used for Task 2 and one variable you used for Task 3. In each
case, state the data type and purpose of the variable.

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(b) Write an algorithm to show how you calculated and output the number of late arrivals and the
average number of minutes late for each bus route (part of Task 2), using either pseudocode,
programming statements or a flowchart.

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(c) Explain how your program uses the input in Task 3 to only find the data for that specific day
(part of Task 3). Any programming statements used in your answer must be fully explained.

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(d) Explain how you would alter your program in Task 1 to allow you to choose the number of
weeks to enter data on bus arrival times.

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Section B

2 Describe each of the following data types used in programming. In each case, give an example of
a piece of data to illustrate your answer. Each example must be different.

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3 (a) Give an example of a conditional statement using pseudocode.

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Question 4 starts on page 10.

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4 This section of program code may be used as a validation check.

1 PRINT "Input a value between 0 and 100 inclusive"

2 INPUT Value
3 WHILE Value < 0 OR Value > 100
4 PRINT "Invalid value, try again"
5 INPUT Value
6 ENDWHILE
7 PRINT "Accepted: ", Value

(a) Give a name for this type of validation check.

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(b) Describe what is happening in this validation check.

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(c) Complete the trace table for this program code using the test data: 200, 300, –1, 50, 60

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(d) Draw a flowchart to represent this section of program code.

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5 The table, BEVERAGES, shows the number of calories in 100 ml of a range of popular beverages.
It also shows the availability of these drinks in a can, a small bottle and a large bottle.

BevNo BevName Calories Can Small Bottle Large Bottle

Bev01 Cola 40 Yes Yes Yes
Bev02 Lime 45 Yes No Yes
Bev03 Energy Drink 1 52 Yes Yes No
Bev04 Energy Drink 2 43 Yes No No
Bev05 Mango 47 Yes No Yes
Bev06 Lemon Iced Tea 38 Yes No Yes
Bev07 Lemonade 58 Yes Yes Yes
Bev08 Orange Juice 46 Yes Yes No
Bev12 Apple Juice 50 Yes Yes No
Bev15 Chocolate Milk 83 Yes Yes No

(a) Give a reason for choosing BevNo as the primary key for this table.

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(b) State the number of records shown in the table BEVERAGES.

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(c) List the output that would be given by this query-by-example.

Field: BevNo BevName Can Small Bottle Large Bottle

Table: BEVERAGES BEVERAGES BEVERAGES BEVERAGES BEVERAGES

Sort: Descending

Show: ü ü
Criteria: = "Yes" = "Yes" = "Yes"

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(d) Complete the query-by-example grid to output a list showing just the names and primary keys
of all the beverages with a calorie count greater than 45. The list should be in alphabetical
order of names.

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Sort:

Show:
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