Question

I have created a class named Times and I have to construct 4 overloaded methods. I just would like some help understanding overloaded methods and at least maybe some help with the first one. I would really appreciate it. Thanks 🙂

• multiply 2 integers and return the (integer) product
• multiply 3 integers and return the (integer) product
• multiply 2 double values and return the (double) product
• multiply 3 double values and return the (double) product

Answer 1

“Overloaded methods” just means the methods would all have the same name (and be in the same class). The parameters need to be different either in number or type, however.

Since the all multiply stuff, “multiply” makes sense as a name.

The first one:

multiply 2 integers and return the
(integer) product

So it returns an integer (an int), is named “multiply”, takes 2 ints as parameters, that gives us:

int multiply(int a, int b) {

It returns the product, so the body is:

    return a * b;

And then we’re done with that one:

}

That gives us:

int multiply(int a, int b) {
    return a * b;
}

Use the same approach and the same name for the others.