Casting help.

Question

I am creating code for a die tossing program. i have written the code the toss two die (36,000 times) and to add the the sums of the die and keep track of the number of throws for each possible sum. however, i am now trying to return the average number of throws for each sum. my problem is that the die face value and their sums are of the type int, and i need the average to be of the type double or float. i can't figure out how to cast correctly. this is what i have:
(float) average = faceCount/maxThrows;
where faceCount[i] is the total number of times each possible face sum was returned, and maxThrows was declared as 36,000.
any help is greatly appreciated. please let me know if you need any further info.

Answer 1

thank you. that worked! but, now there's an additional problem.
i have two loops set up. the first is the loop to complete the maxThrows, the second is to add up the sums and compute the average. the system needs to complete the maxThrows, then compute the average for each face sum. however, the way i have it written, the program rolls the die the maxThrows then computes the average for the sum of 2, then rolls the maxThrows again and computes the average for 3, . . . how can i change the order of the code so that it completes all maxThrows, then computes average for 2, average for 3, . . .
this is what i have:
for (int i = 1; i <=maxThrows; i++)
int face = greenDie.getFaceValueGreen() + redDie.getFaceValueRed();
faceCount[face] = faceCount[face] + 1;
faceCount[zero] = faceCount[zero] + 1;
for (int i= 2; i <= 12; i++)
average = ((double)faceCount)/100;
System.out.println("face = " + i + ": count = " + faceCount[i] + ": average = " + average);
System.out.println("Total count = " + faceCount[zero] + "\n");