Question:

Create a calorimeter to tell the “user” the pounds lost. It doesn’t ACTUALLY measure the number of calories you burn or the number of calories you ingest. Instead, it makes four assumptions:

1) When walking, you burn 5 calories/minute.

2) When standing in line, you burn 2 calorie/minute.

3) When you are consuming solid food, you ingest 40 calories/minute.

4) When you are consuming a drink, you ingest 20 calories/minute.

The calorimeter is “smart enough” to know which of the four activities you are engaging in at any point in time, and at the end of the day, compiles a tally of how many minutes you spent doing each of these four activities. Write a program that takes these four values as input and outputs the pounds lost (we want a positive message for our clients). If the user has gained weight, simply print out a negative number for weight lost. Note, use the following constants for this problem:

#define WALK_CAL 5

#define STAND_CAL 2

#define DRINK_CAL 20

#define FOOD_CAL 40

#define CALS_PER_POUND 3500
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