Implementing an interface means that you are adding to your class any mechanisms defined in an abstract class. Your class essentially is expanded to contain those items defined in the interface class but you have to implement any of those items that are abstract. The appeal is that other objects might call upon your class to use the interface methods without knowing anything else about your class. The derived class is similar in that you are gaining items previously defined, although in this case, those items are defined in the parent class (as long as those items are protected or public) and you do not have to implement any of them unless you want to redefine them. One difference between the two is that the interface cannot be instantiated directly. Another difference is that your class "inherits" abstract methods from the interface class as opposed to implemented methods from a super class. The above statements are"

Jason, samantha, ravi, sheila, and ankit are preparing for an upcoming marathon. each day of the week, they run a certain number of miles and write them into a notebook. at the end of the week, they would like to know the number of miles run each day, the total miles for the week, and average miles run each day. write a program to them analyze their data. your program must contain parallel arrays: an array to store the names of the runners and a two-dimensional array of five rows and seven columns to store the number of miles run by each runner each day. furthermore, your program must contain at least the following functions: a function to read and store the runners’ names and the numbers of miles run each day; a function to find the total miles run by each runner and the average number of miles run each day; and a function to output the results. (you may assume that the input data is stored in a file and each line of data is in the following form: runnername milesday1 milesday2 milesday3 milesday4 milesday5 milesday6 milesday7.)