(C Programming) Display the largest number and also the smallest number among the 3 numbers. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Question

Our instructor wants us to use the if statements of C Programming, how may I able to do this if there are 3 numbers? Some says it is easy but I couldn't find it easy at my current timeline, I have tried 2 numbers only and it worked. Here's the code...

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
int a, b ;

printf ("Enter the 2 numbers:\n");
scanf ("%d %d", &a, &b);

if(a>b)
{
printf ("%d = a is the greatest number\n", a);
printf ("%d = b is the least number\n", b);
}

if(a<b)
{
printf ("%d = b is the greatest number\n", b);
printf ("%d = a is the least number\n", a);
}

return 0;
}

Answer 1

You should create two new variables called min and max, the code should be similar to this:

int a, b, c, min, max;
a=0;
b=0;
c=0;
min=0;
max=0;

printf...
scanf...

if(a>b) {
max=a;
min=b;
}
else{
max=b;
min=a;
}

if(c>max) {
max=c;
}
if(c<min) {
min=c;
}

Then you print out the variable max and the variable min.
Hope it's all clear now!

Answer 2

I will try this bro, thankss!