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    copied!<p>Problem: ACL Scrabble is a lettered tile game played on a grid game board. The board for this program will be 4 x 10. The grid squares are numbered as below:</p> <pre><code> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 </code></pre> <p>The squares that are every other multiple of 3 (3, 9, 15...) are Double Letter score squares.</p> <p>The squares that are multiples of 5 and not used above are Triple Letter score squares.</p> <p>The squares that are multiples of 7 and not used above are Double Word score squares.</p> <p>The squares that are multiples of 8 and not used above are Triple Word score squares.</p> <p>Letter values will come from the following chart:</p> <pre><code> A, E - 1 point D, R - 2 points B, M - 3 points V, Y - 4 points J, X - 8 points </code></pre> <p>INPUT: There will be 6 lines of input. The first line will give the letters of the word. The word will always have 4 letters. The remaining 5 lines will be starting locations for the word and a direction: horizontal (H) or vertical (V). </p> <p>OUTPUT: For each starting location, print the total points scored by the word. No word will have more than one word score multiplier</p> <pre><code> SAMPLE INPUT SAMPLE OUTPUT 1. J, A, V, A 1. 18 2. 1, V 2. 17 3. 2, H 3. 42 4. 6, V 4. 30 5. 12, H 5. 66 6. 21, H </code></pre> <p>My question: How would I go about doing such a task? What's the most efficient way? Should I assign each letter to a number and just code in a bunch of if statements or is there another way? Thank you in advance.</p>
 

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