Write a C program that will calculate the pay for employees

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I suspect the help you need with this program is about how to format output in the C language. I will get to that in a moment.

The first thing the program will need to do is prompt the user to enter how many employees to process. After reading that input from the user, it will have to perform all the operations for each employee. That implies a loop of some kind. Since the assignment is to loop a given number of times (the number that was entered by the user), a for loop seems reasonable. Something like this:

for (i=0; i<numberOfEmployeesToProcess; i++)
{
/* THIS IS WHERE ALL THE CODE TO PROCESS EACH
** EMPLOYEE WOULD GO
*/
}

For each employee entered, the program has to prompt for, and read, three values, the
clock number, wage rate, and number of hours. A prompt is really just a function call to "printf" followed by a function call to "scanf". The printf function prints the information you want to ask the user, like: "Please enter the social security number 1: ". To get printf to actually print that, you would call it like this:

int i = 1;
printf ("Please enter the social security number %.1d: ", i);

That %d is very important for printf. The way the function works is to substitute things for what appears after the "%". There's a whole bunch of things it does, and that's what you'll need to use to format the output nicely. In this particular case, I'm telling printf to substitute the value in the variable "i" for the %d. Given the way I've just called it, the result should be the same as the prompt in the paragraph above that code. Please note that the ".1" following the percent sign tells the function to only print one digit of the number. If the variable had the value 333 stored in it, the only thing you would see would be this: "Please enter the social security number 3: ". If, however, you called printf like this:

printf ("Please enter the social security number %.4: ", i);

And the value of i at that point was still 333, it would print: "Please enter the social security number 333: ". There are a variety of things the printf function can do with it's formatting. The basics of it are as follows:

The first argument to printf is a character string that may or ...