10.9.2. Trio Student Solution 1¶
The following is a free response question from 2014. It was question 4 on the exam. You can see all the free response questions from past exams at https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-computer-science-a/free-response-questions-by-year.
Question 4. The menu at a lunch counter includes a variety of sandwiches, salads, and drinks. The menu also allows a
customer to create a “trio,” which consists of three menu items: a sandwich, a salad, and a drink. The price
of the trio is the sum of the two highest-priced menu items in the trio; one item with the lowest price is free.
Each menu item has a name and a price. The four types of menu items are represented by the four classes
Sandwich
, Salad
, Drink
, and Trio
. All four classes implement the following MenuItem
interface.
public interface MenuItem
{
/**
* @return the name of the menu item
*/
String getName();
/**
* @return the price of the menu item
*/
double getPrice();
}
The following diagram shows the relationship between the MenuItem
interface and the Sandwich
, Salad
, Drink
, and Trio
classes.
![../_images/trioUML.png](../_images/trioUML.png)
Figure 1: UML class diagram showing MenuItem is implemented by Sandwich, Salad, Drink, and Trio.¶
For example, assume that the menu includes the following items. The objects listed under each heading are instances of the class indicated by the heading.
![../_images/menuItemObjs.png](../_images/menuItemObjs.png)
Figure 2: Example objects¶
The menu allows customers to create Trio menu items, each of which includes a sandwich, a salad, and a
drink. The name of the Trio consists of the names of the sandwich, salad, and drink, in that order, each
separated by “/” and followed by a space and then “Trio”. The price of the Trio is the sum of the two
highest-priced items in the Trio; one item with the lowest price is free.
A trio consisting of a cheeseburger, spinach salad, and an orange soda would have the name
"Cheeseburger/Spinach Salad/Orange Soda Trio"
and a price of $4.00 (the two highest prices
are $2.75 and $1.25). Similarly, a trio consisting of a club sandwich, coleslaw, and a cappuccino would have the
name "Club Sandwich/Coleslaw/Cappuccino Trio"
and a price of $6.25 (the two highest prices
are $2.75 and $3.50).
10.9.2.1. Grading Rubric¶
Below is the grading rubric for the Trio class problem.
![../_images/TrioGrading.png](../_images/TrioGrading.png)
Figure 3: The grading rubric for the Trio class problem.¶
10.9.2.2. Practice Grading¶
The following is the first sample student response.
![../_images/TrioStudentSol1.png](../_images/TrioStudentSol1.png)
Figure 4: The first sample student response to the Trio class problem.¶
Apply the grading rubric shown above as you answer the following questions.
Apply the Grading Rubric
- Yes
- This declares the class correctly as
public class Trio implements MenuItem
- No
- What do you think is wrong with the class declaration?
9-9-1-1: Should the student earn 1 point for the correct declaration of the Trio
class?
- Yes
- All instance variables are declared private (sand, sal, and dri) and are of the appropriate type (Sandwich, Salad, and Drink)
- No
- What do you think is wrong with the instance variables declaration?
9-9-1-2: Should the student earn 1 point for declaring the private instance variables (sandwich, salad, and drink or name and price)?
- Yes
- This solution declares the constructor as
public Trio(Sandwich a, Salad b, Drink c)
- No
- What do you think is wrong with the constructor declaration?
9-9-1-3: Should the student earn 1 point for declaring the the constructor correctly?
- Yes
- This solution initializes the private instance variables (sand, sal, and dri) correctly with the values from the parameters (a,b, and c).
- No
- What do you think is wrong with the initialization of the instance variables in the constructor?
9-9-1-4: Should the student earn 1 point for correctly initializing the appropriate instance variables in the constructor?
- Yes
- This solution contains correct declarations for
public String getName()
andpublic double getPrice()
. - No
- To implement an interface the class must have a getName and getPrice method as defined by the MenuItem interface.
9-9-1-5: Should the student earn 1 point for correctly declaring the methods in the MenuItem
interface (getName
and getPrice
)?
- Yes
- This solution doesn't include the "Trio" at the end of the name so it loses this point.
- No
- While the name is mostly correct, it is missing the word "Trio" at the end which means it loses this point.
9-9-1-6: Should the student earn 1 point for correctly constructing the string to return from getName
and making it available to be returned?
- Yes
- This solution does return the constructed string.
- No
- Even though the string is not correct it was constructed and returned.
9-9-1-7: Should the student earn 1 point for returning a constructed string from getName
?
- Yes
- This solution does compute the price correctly.
- No
- There are only 3 possibilities for which is the cheapest item and this correctly deals with the 3 cases.
9-9-1-8: Should the student earn 1 point for correctly calculating the price and making it available to be returned from getPrice
?
- Yes
- This solution does return the calculated price.
- No
- What do you think is wrong with the return statement?
9-9-1-9: Should the student earn 1 point for returning the calculated price in getPrice
?