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Windows or gEdit in LINUX, and type in the data below.

Jim,M,47
Mary,F,23
Bob,M,67
John,M,13
Sue,F,18

Write a program that will read in the data from the people file.
Use string handling functions from Chapter 16 to break each line
into three parts: 1) name, 2) gender, and 3) age. Tally the total of
the ages, the number of people, and the number of males as you
read the file. Once you have read all the records display the
percentage of males and the average age of the people in the file.

3. Create a file in the directory where you save your programs
named “assignments.txt”. Open it with a text editor, like Notepad
in Windows or gEdit in LINUX, and type in the data below.

Jim,88,45
Joe,90,33
Mary,54,29
Maury, 57,30

Write a program that will read in the data from the assignments
file and write out a new file named “finalgrade.txt” with the
student's name, a comma, and their course grade. Calculate the
course grade for each student based on the two assignment
grades. The first assignment was worth 100 points and the second
assignment was worth 50 points.

The output should look something like:

Jim,88
…

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