C Interview Programs to print number patterns

1. Write a program to display the multiplication table of a given number.

Program: Multiplication table of a given number

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01 #include <stdio.h>
02 int main() {

03       int num, i = 1;
04       printf("\n Enter any Number:");
05       scanf("%d", &num);
06       printf("Multiplication table of %d: \n", num);
07       while (i <= 10) {
08             printf("\n %d x %d = %d", num, i, num * i);
09             i++;
10       }
11       return 0;
12 }

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Output:

Enter any Number:5

5 x 1 = 5
5 x 2 = 10
5 x 3 = 15
5 x 4 = 20
5 x 5 = 25
5 x 6 = 30
5 x 7 = 35
5 x 8 = 40
5 x 9 = 45
5 x 10 = 50

Explanation: We need to multiply the given number (i.e. the number for which we want
the multiplication table) with value of ‘i’ which increments from 1 to 10.

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2. Write C program to print the following pattern:

1
 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5

Program:

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01 #include<stdio.h>
02 int main() {

03     int i, j, k, c = 5;
04     for (i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {
05             /* k is taken for spaces */
06             for (k = 1; k <= c; k++) {
07                   /* blank space */
08                   printf(" ");

09             }
10             for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
11                   /* %2d ensures that the number is printed in
12 two spaces for alignment and the numbers are printed in the order. */
13                   printf("%2d", i);
14             }

15             printf("\n");
16             /*c is decremented by 1 */
17             c--;
18       }
19       return 0;
20 }

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Output:

1
2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5
 Explanation: Here ‘i’ loop is used for printing the numbers in the respective rows and
‘k’ loop is used for providing spaces. ‘j’ loop prints the numbers. ‘c’ is decremented for
numbers to be displayed in alternate columns.

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3. Write C program to print the following pattern:

1
1 2 1
1 2 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1

Program:

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01 #include<stdio.h>
02 int main() {
03       /* c taken for columns */
04       int i, j, c = 9, m, k;

05       for (i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {

06             /* k is used for spaces */
07             for (k = 1; k <= c; k++) {
08                   printf(" ");

09             }
            for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) {                   printf("%2d",
10
j);             }             for (m = j - 2; m > 0; m--) {
11                   /* %2d ensures that the number
12                    * is printed in two spaces
13                    * for alignment */
14                   printf("%2d", m);

15             }
16             printf("\n");
17             /* c is decremented by 2 */
18             c = c - 2;

19       }
20       return 0;
21 }
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Output:

1
1 2 1
1 2 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1

Explanation: Here ‘i’ loop is used for printing numbers in rows and ‘k’ loop is used for
providing spaces. ‘j’ loop is used for printing numbers in increasing order. ‘m’ loop is
used for printing numbers in reverse order.

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4. Write a C program to display the following format:

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a b
------
1 5
2 4
3 3
4 2
5 1
------

Program:

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01 #include<stdio.h>
02 int main() {

03       int i = 1, j = 5;
04       printf("----------\n");
05       printf("a \t b \n");
06       printf("----------\n");
07       /* logic: while loop repeats
08        * 5 times i.e. until
09        * the condition i<=5 fails */
10       while (i <= 5) {
11             /* i and j value printed */
12             printf("%d \t %d\n", i, j);
13             /* i and j value incremented
14              by 1 for every iteration */
 15             i++;
16             j--;
17       }
18       printf("----------");
19       return 0;
20 }

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Output:

------
a b
------
1 5
2 4
3 3
4 2
5 1
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Explanation: Here, ‘i’ is initialized to least value 1 and ‘j’ initialized to highest value 5.
We keep incrementing the i’ value and decrementing the ‘j’ value until the condition
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5. Write a C program to display the following format:

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no. sum
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1 1
2 3
3 6
4 10
5 15
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Program:

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01 #include<stdio.h>
02 int main() {

03       int num = 1, sum = 0;

04       printf("-----------\n");
05       printf("num \t sum\n");
06       printf("-----------\n");
07       /* while loop repeats 5 times
08        *  i.e. until the condition
09        *  num <= 5 fails */
10       while (num <= 5) {

11             sum = sum + num;

12             printf("%d \t %d\n", num, sum);
13             /* num incremented by 1
14              * for every time
15              * the loop is executed */
16             num++;

17       }
18       printf("-----------");
19       return 0;
20 }

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Output:

--------
no. sum
--------
1 1
2 3
3 6
4 10
5 15
--------

Explanation: In the above program we have taken two variables ‘num’ and ’sum’. ‘num’
is used to check the condition and to display the numbers up to 5. ’sum’ is used to add the
numbers which are displayed using variable ‘num’. The ’sum’ value is initialized to zero.
sum is added to the numbers which are incremented by ‘i’ and displayed.