I am trying to make it drop the lowest score when determining the score and grade This is my reattempt at this.

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The GradeBook class stores data about student grades for the Grade Book programming challenge. */

public class GradeBook { // Constant for the number of students private final int NUM_STUDENTS = 5; // Constant for the number of tests private final int NUM_TESTS = 4; // Array to hold student names private String[] names = new String[NUM_STUDENTS]; // Array to hold student grades private char[] grades = new char[NUM_STUDENTS]; // Create arrays of scores, one for each student. private double[] scores1 = new double[NUM_TESTS]; private double[] scores2 = new double[NUM_TESTS]; private double[] scores3 = new double[NUM_TESTS]; private double[] scores4 = new double[NUM_TESTS]; private double[] scores5 = new double[NUM_TESTS];

/** The setName method assigns a student's name. @param studentNumber The student's number. @param name The student's name. */ public void removeLowest(double lowGrade) double score; { { // loop through rows of grades array for ( double NUM_TESTS[] : scores ) { // loop through columns of current row for ( double grade : NUM_TESTS ) { // if grade less than lowGrade, assign it to lowGrade if ( grade < lowGrade ) lowGrade = grade; } // end inner for } // end outer for

return lowGrade; // return lowest grade } // end method getMinimum

} public void setName(int studentNumber, String name) { names[studentNumber - 1] = name; } /** The setScores method copies an array of test scores to a student's array of scores. @param studentNumber The student's number. @param scores An array of test scores. */ public void setScores(int studentNumber, double[] scores) { if (studentNumber == 1) copyArray(scores1, scores); else if (studentNumber == 2) copyArray(scores2, scores); else if (studentNumber == 3) copyArray(scores3, scores); else if (studentNumber == 4) copyArray(scores4, scores); else if (studentNumber == 5) copyArray(scores5, scores); assignGrade(studentNumber); } /** The getName method returns a student's name. @param studentNumber The specified student's number. @return The student's name. */ public String getName(int studentNumber) { return names[studentNumber - 1]; } /** The getAverage method returns a student's average test score. @param studentNumber The specified student's number. @return The student's average test score. */ public double getAverage(int studentNumber) { double average; if (studentNumber == 1) average = calcAverage(scores1); else if (studentNumber == 2) average = calcAverage(scores2); else if (studentNumber == 3) average = calcAverage(scores3); else if (studentNumber == 4) average = calcAverage(scores4); else if (studentNumber == 5) average = calcAverage(scores5); else average = 0.0; return average; } /** The getLetterGrade method returns a student's letter grade. @param studentNumber The specified student's number. @return The student's letter grade. */ public char getLetterGrade(int studentNumber) { return grades[studentNumber - 1]; }

/** copyArray is a private method that copies the contents of one array to another. @param to The array to copy to. @param from The array to copy from. */ private void copyArray(double[] to, double[] from) { for (int i = 0; i < to.length; i++) to[i] = from[i]; } /** calcAverage is a private method that calculates the average of the values in an array of test scores. @param scores The array with the test scores. */ private double calcAverage(double[] scores) { double total = 0.0, average; // Calculate the total of the scores. for (int i = 0; i < scores.length; i++) total += scores[i]; // Calculate the average. average = total / (scores.length); return average; } /** assignGrade is a private method that determines and assigns a letter grade to a specific student. @param studentNumber The specified student's number. */ private void assignGrade(int studentNumber) { double average = getAverage(studentNumber); grades[studentNumber-1] = determineGrade(average); }

/** determineGrade is a private method that determines a letter grade for a test average. @param average The test average. @return The letter grade. */ private char determineGrade(double average) { char grade; if (average >= 90 && average <= 100) grade = 'A'; else if (average >= 80 && average < 90) grade = 'B'; else if (average >= 70 && average < 80) grade = 'C'; else if (average >= 60 && average < 70) grade = 'D'; else if (average >= 0 && average < 60) grade = 'F'; else grade = '?'; return grade; } }

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public class GradeBookDemo2 { public static void main(String[] args) { // Create a GradeBook object. GradeBook gb = new GradeBook();

// Get the data from the user. getData(gb); // Display the student data. System.out.println("STUDENT DATA"); for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) { System.out.println("Name : " + gb.getName(i) + "\tAverage score: " + gb.getAverage(i) + "\tGrade: " + gb.getLetterGrade(i)); } }

/** The getData method gets student data from the user and populates a GradeBook object. @param gb The GradeBook object. */ public static void getData(GradeBook gb) { String name; // To hold a name double[] scores = new double[4]; // An array of scores

// Create a Scanner object for keyboard input. Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); // Get info for each student. for (int student = 1; student <= 5; student++) { // Get the name. System.out.print("Enter student " + student + "'s name: "); name = keyboard.nextLine(); gb.setName(student, name); // Read the 4 test scores. System.out.println("Now enter student " + student + "'s four test scores."); for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { System.out.print("Test score #" + (i + 1) + ": "); scores[i] = keyboard.nextDouble(); gb.setScores(student, scores); } // Consume the remaining newline. keyboard.nextLine(); } System.out.println(); } }