I'm trying to find the average of integers elements in an array using recursion. I know how to do it using loops, but I have to do it by recursion for my assignment, so what I tried to do is to find the sum of elements using recursion and then divide the sum by the length of the array. I wrote this code but it gives me a wrong result:
public int findAvg(int a[], int n)
{
int sum,avg;
if(n==1)
{
sum=a[0];
return sum;
}
else
{
sum=a[n-1]+findAvg(a,n-1);
}
avg = sum/n;
return avg;}
The calling of findAvg method in main class:
public class main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Recursive r = new Recursive ();
int integersArr [] = {1,2,3,4,5};
int max = r.findMax(integersArr,integersArr.length );
int avg = r.findAvg(integersArr, integersArr.length);
System.out.println("Maximum element = "+ max);
System.out.println("Average value of elements = "+ avg);
}
}
The console output:
Average value of elements = 1
First of all average of integers can be floating point. So make the return type of your function to float or double. Now,
If you have set of n numbers with average of x and you want to add one more number to the set (say b). New average will be ((n * x) + b) / (n + 1). Use the same trick in your code.
public float findAvg(int a[], int n)
{
float sum,avg;
if(n==1)
{
sum=a[0];
}
else
{
// Calculate sum of n-1 numbers = (n-1) * (avg of n-1 numbers)
// and add nth number to it ( i.e. a[n-1])
sum= a[n-1]+ (n-1) * findAvg(a,n-1);
}
avg = sum/n;
return avg;
}
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