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1. Word Counter
Write a program that asks the user for the name of a file. The program should display the number of words that the file contains.
2. Sales Analysis
The file SalesData.txt, in this chapter’s source code folder, contains the dollar amount of sales that a retail store made each day for a number of weeks. Each line in the file contains seven numbers, which are the sales numbers for one week. The numbers are separated by a comma. The following line is an example from the file:
2541.36,2965.88,1965.32,1845.23,7021.11,9652.74,1469.36
Write a program that opens the file and processes its contents. The program should display the following:
• The total sales for each week
• The average daily sales for each week
• The total sales for all of the weeks
• The average weekly sales
• The week number that had the highest amount of sales
• The week number that had the lowest amount of sales