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Ruby program to read the height of a person and the print person is taller, dwarf, or average height person

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will read the height of a person from the user. Then we will print person taller, dwarf, or average height person.

Program/Source Code

The source code to read the height of a person and the print person is taller, dwarf or average height person is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to read the height of a person 
# and the print person is taller, dwarf, 
# or average height person

print "Enter height: ";
height = gets.chomp.to_f;  

if height >= 150.0 && height <= 170.0 
    print "Person is average height person";
elsif height > 170.0 && height <= 195.0
    print "Person is taller";
elsif height < 150.0 
    print "Person is dwarf";
else
    print "Abnormal height";
end

Output

Enter height: 186.2
Person is taller

Explanation

In the above program, we read the height of a person from the user. Then we check the height of the person and printed the appropriate message based on input height that person is taller, dwarf, or average height person.

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