Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 18, Problem 8RQ
The Eco-Marathon is an annual competition sponsored by Shell Oil, in which participants build special vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency. The Eco-Marathon is held around the world with events in the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Holland, Japan, and the United States.
A world record was set in the Eco-Marathon by a French team in 2003 called Microjoule with a performance of 10,705 miles per gallon. The Microjoule runs on ethanol. Write a MATLAB program to determine how far the Microjoule will travel in kilometers given a user-specified amount of ethanol, provided in units of grams. Your program should ask for the mass using an input statement and display the distance in a formatted sentence similar to the output that follows. If the user provides a mass less than zero or greater than 500 grams, your program should terminate after displaying an error message using the error function indicating that the provided
mass of ethanol is outside of the desired range of input.
Sample Input/Output (three examples)
Enter mass of ethanol [grams]: -15
Error: Mass must be between 0 and 500 grams
Enter mass of ethanol [grams]: 1000
Error: Mass must be between 0 and 500 grams
Enter mass of ethanol [grams]: l00
The distance the Microjoule traveled is 577 kilometers.
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