Need assistance with c++ question in my book?

[WDman420]

The question that is in my book says:
define a function with a single int type parameter n. the function should utilize a loop to read a loop to read in n integer values , then return the sum of these n numbers.

write the function definition only.

I thought of something like this but i don't know if im doing it right

int readInt(int n)
{
	for( int i = 0; i<n; i++)
{
	cout << i <<","<<endl;
}
return n;
}

[WDman420]

the code i put did not make sense maybe this does I really dont know what to do when it worded like that.

int readInt(int n)
{ int sum = 0;
	for( int i = 0; i<n; i++)
{     sum +=i;
	cout << sum <<","<<endl;
}
return n;
}

[AbstractionAnon]

You're not reading in any values, nor adding these values to a running sum.

What's the point of returning n? The caller already knows what n is. Don't you mean to return sum?

[WDman420]

yes i do mean return sum sorry .If I am not reading in any values what can i change in code so it does read any value.

 int readInt(int n)
{ int sum = 0;
	for( int i = 0; i<n; i++)
{     sum +=i;
	cout << sum <<","<<endl;
}
return sum;
}

[AbstractionAnon]

 int readInt (int n)
{ int sum = 0;
   int val;
   
   for (int i = 0; i<n; i++)
   {     cin >> val;    // Read in a value
         sum += val;  // Add the value to the running total
   }
   return sum;
}