Application 1.5 Change Calculator

Objective

Your task is to write a program that helps novice cashiers give back the correct change efficiently. The program should start with the largest coin denomination and work its way down until the exact change is given.

Skills to Practice

• Prompting a user for input
• Saving user input to variables
• Converting input to the correct data type (if necessary)
• Performing arithmetic calculations
• Formatting custom output using variables

Tasks

• Create a new project named 1-5-change-calculator
• Complete the following tasks:
  • Prompt the user to input the amount of change needed. For simplicity, assume the value will range from 1 to 99 cents.
  • alculate the change starting with the largest denomination (quarters) and work down to the smallest (pennies).
  • Display the result in a clear and concise format.

Sample Output

1
Enter the amount of change needed (in cents): 68 [Enter]
2
You will need:
3
2 quarters
4
1 dime
5
1 nickel
6
3 pennies