Help with Methods

[Guerlain]

I am a beginner in Java. I have been learning java by myself during the last few weeks and facing some difficulties with a question i got from a collegue of mine who did java at uni level. I don't know have to work with methods and she can't remember as well. Could some please help me out ??

Question:-

A telephone cost plan:

Local calls are charged at $0.50 per minute(between 9a.m and 9pm). Long distance calls (> 200 miles) are charged at $1.10 per minute((between 9a.m and 9pm). From 9p.m to 9a.m,calls are charged at half the normal rate.

I have to write a program which calculates the total cost of an arbitrary number of calls. For each call, the person using the phone needs to enter a time value (in 24hr mode), a distance (in miles), and a call length (in minutes). The program must then display the cost of that call and also adds the cost onto a cumulative total.

When the phone user has no more calls to process, a time value of -999 instead of a legal time. When the program reads this sentinel value it displays the total cost of all the processed calls and ends.

Thnx.

Your help would be very appreciated.

[will808]

Not sure which but youre stuck on, so to start with, you need to create a method that accepts the parameters, something like this:

public double calculateCallCost(double time, long distance, int callLength) {

//if else statments here

 return callCost;       
}

//assuming user calls method something like this:
//calculateCallCost(21.35, 300, 45);

You'll need to intialize the variables first, eg double callCost, and then make sure that the results of your if else statements set that variable. That should get you started.