The Five Steps - Step 1

What is this program supposed to do?: From the task description, and our initial simplifying assumptions, we can see that the program is supposed to compute the value of one stock.
What kind of information is it given? (What is the input?): We are given the number of shares of stock owned, and the stock value, expressed as 3 numbers (whole dollars, and the numerator and denominator of the fraction).
What kind of results is it to produce? (What is the output?): We should produce the value of the portfolio in dollars.
What formulas or techniques will be needed?: The value of the stock is simply the number of shares times the stock price. The stock price is the whole dollars plus the numerator/denominator of the fractional part.

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