CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
mars
mars

Reputation: 49

Programming Decision Structures

A wholesale egg company bases their prices on the number of eggs purchased:

0 up to but not including 4 dozen $0.50 per dozen 4 up to but not including 6 dozen $0.45 per dozen 6 up to but not including 11 dozen $0.40 per dozen 11 or more dozen $0.35 per dozen Extra Eggs are priced at 1/12 the per dozen price

Create a program that prompts the user for the number of eggs, and then calculates bill. The application output should look similar to: Enter the number of eggs purchased: 18 The bill is equal to: $0.75

This is the question and here is my code:

eggs = int(raw_input("Please enter the amount of eggs you have."))

if (eggs >=12 and eggs <=47):
    dozen = int(eggs) // 12
    dozenprice = float(dozen) * 0.50
    extra = float(eggs) % 12
    extraprice = float(extra)*((1/12)*0.50)
    total = float(dozenprice) + float(extraprice)
    print "Your total is " + str(total)

if (eggs >=48 and eggs<=71):
    dozen = int(eggs) // 12
    dozenprice = float(dozen) * 0.45
    extra = float(eggs) % 12
    extraprice = float(extra)*((1/12)*0.45)
    total = float(dozenprice) + int(extraprice)
    print "Your total is " + str(total)

if (eggs >=72 and eggs <=131):
    dozen = int(eggs) // 12
    dozenprice = float(dozen) * 0.40
    extra = float(eggs) % 12
    extraprice = float(extra)*((1/12)*0.40)
    total = float(dozenprice) + int(extraprice)
    print "Your total is " + str(total)

if (eggs >=132):
    dozen = int(eggs) // 12
    dozenprice = float(dozen) * 0.35
    extra = float(eggs) % 12
    extraprice = float(extra)*((1/12)*0.35)
    total = float(dozenprice) + int(extraprice)
    print "Your total is " + str(total)

Why isn't the price for the extra eggs appearing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1486

Answers (2)

Sachith Muhandiram
Sachith Muhandiram

Reputation: 2972

As I understood, it is a problem in your python code. I modified the first part as follows

if (12 <= eggs <= 47):
   dozen = eggs/ 12
   dozenprice = dozen * 0.50
   extra = eggs % 12.0
   extraprice = extra*((1.0/12.0)*0.50)
   total = dozenprice + extraprice
   print "Your total is " + str(total)

Result is : 

Please enter the amount of eggs you have : 18

Your total is 0.75

You No need to use extra = float(eggs) % 12 because egg value is an integer. Simplified the if() variables as if (12 <= eggs <= 47):

Upvotes: 0

TemporalWolf
TemporalWolf

Reputation: 7952

1/12 in python2.7 is 0, because they are integers and using integer division you get 0. Then you get 0 * price...

1/12. will produce 0.083, as the 12. forces it to be a float. Alternatively, you can get Python3 behavior like so:

from __future__ import division

Without that, in Python2.7, / & // are equivalent.

Upvotes: 3

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