// This program accepts a user's monthly pay // and rent, utilities, and grocery bills
// and displays the amount available for discretionary spending
// (which might be negative)
// Modify the program to output the pay and the total bills // as well as the remaining discretionary amount start input pay input rent input utilities input groceries discretionary

start
input pay
input rent
input utilities
input groceries
discretionary= pay - rent - utlilites - groceries
output discretionary
stop

The programming language is not stated; However, I'll answer this question using two programming languages (Python and C++)

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#Python Program starts here

#Prompt user for monthly pay

pay = float(input("Enter Monthly Pay: "))

#Prompt user for rent

rent = float(input("Enter Rent: "))

#Prompt user for utilities

utilities = float(input("Enter Utilities: "))

#Prompt user for groceries

groceries = float(input("Enter Groceries: "))

#Calculate discretionary

discretionary = pay - rent - utilities - groceries

#Print discretionary

print("Discretionary: ")

print(discretionary)

#Python Program ends here

//C++ Program starts here

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

//Declare variables

float pay, rent, utilities, groceries, discretionary;

//Prompt user for input

cout<<"Enter Monthly Pay: ";

cin>>pay;

cout<<"Enter Rent: ";

cin>>rent;

cout<<"Enter Utilities: ";

cin>>utilities;

cout<<"Enter Groceries: ";

cin>>groceries;

//Calculate discretionary

discretionary = pay - rent - utilities - groceries;

//Print discretionary

cout<<"Discretionary: "<<discretionary;

return 0;

}

//C++ Program ends here

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