How to add variable inside the cout?

Question

I want to add float average variable inside the cout. What's the perfect way for it?

int first , second , third;
cout<<"enter the first number: ";
cin>>first;
cout<<"enter the second number: ";
cin>>second;
cout<<"enter the third number: ";
cin>>third;

cout<<float average=(first+second+third)/3;

Answer 1

You can't do that. Just declare the variable before printing it.

float average = (first + second + third) / 3;
std::cout << average;

What you can do, however, is just not having the variable at all:

std::cout << (first + second + third)/3;

Also note that the result of (first+second+third)/3 is an int and will be truncated. You might want to change int first, second, third; to float first, second, third; if that's not your intention.