CS 1401, Exam #4, 9:30 am version

On this same day in 1974, anthropologists discovered the skeleton of Lucy, a 3.2 million years old human ancestor. Lucy was only 1.1 m tall and weighed 29 kilograms, but her bones showed that she walked erect. Her discoverers, Professor Donald Johanson and his student Tom Gray, named her after the famous Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Since then, many other human skeletons have been discovered. Let us help the anthropologists process the resulting data.

1-3. Let us start helping the anthropologists.

1. Define a class HumanAncestors in which each object has three parameters: age, height, and weight. Include a constructor method, accessor methods, mutator methods, methods which compute and return the ancestor's height in inches and weight in pounds, and an appropriate toString method. Reminder: 1 inch is 2.54 cm, and 1 pound is 0.454 kg.

2. In the main method, define Lucy as a new object of this class, and compute and print her weight in pounds (should be approximately 64 pounds). Use scientific notations to describe Lucy's age.

3. Trace your code from Problem 2 step-by-step.

4. When we defined our class in Problems 1-3, we did not include the names of the anthropologists who discovered the skeleton. Define a subclass of the class HumanAncestors which contains a new field: a string discoverers which contains these names. In the main method, define a new object corresponding to Lucy.

5. Write a method that, given an array of objects of type HumanAncestors (defined in Problems 1-3), computes the height of the tallest ancestor from this array.

6. To relax, the anthropologists decided to play a game. Each of them selects an integer -- a predicted weight of the next ancestor. Then, they compute the average of these guesses. Whoever's number is the closest to this average wins. The guessed numbers are stored in a file game, line by line:

• the 1st line contains the first guess,
• the 2nd line contains the second guess,
• etc.