HW015
Math 2984 - Fall 2017
Intro to Mathematical Problem Solving


TASK: Print a pyramid of stars.


COMMENT:

Problem 3: Print out a pyramid of stars of height 5.

      Pyramid of height 5      row  blanks     *

          *                      1      4      1
         ***                     2      3      3
        *****                    3      2      5
       *******                   4      1      7
      *********                  5      0      9
      


INSTRUCTIONS:

        Create an outer loop using "i" as the index, going from
        1 to 5.

          Create an inner loop, using "j" as the index, to print
          the blanks.  When i is 1, we need to print 4 stars, then 
          when i is 2, we need to print 3 stars, and so on.  This
          suggests that for each value of i, we need to print 5-i stars.
          So your "blanks" loop should run from 1 to 5-i.

            To print a blank, use this statement:
            fprintf ( ' ' );

          end your inner loop

          Create another inner loop, using "k" as your index,
          to print the stars.  When i is 1, we print 1 star,
          when i is 2, we print 3, and so on.  So it seems like
          for a given value of i, k should go from 1 to 2*i-1.

            fprintf ( '*' )

          end your inner loop.

          fprintf ( '\n' );    <-- End of this line of the picture.

        End the outer loop.
      


SUBMIT: Your work should be stored in a script file called "hw015.m". Your script file should begin with at least three comment lines:

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