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Why does this code work for 5/5?
After much frustration stemming from the code it says to use (total = meal + meal * tip) not working, I tried my own code;
total = meal + meal * tip + meal * tax
That didn’t work either, so I decided to try adding the difference of my result and the actual result. Since I didn’t remember the numbers, after adding in the “+” after tax, I hit “Save and Submit code” to see the numbers… and it passed me. Full code below:
meal = 44.50 tax = 0.0675 tip = 0.15
total = meal + meal * tax +
print(“%.2f” % total)
Answer 53172d3b282ae3f1390023e2
I don’t have an answer for why it works, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing because I got stuck the exact same place, all my code was correct and just as they were asking for but it wouldn’t pass and I did what you did and it worked. This site is a bit buggy some times it seems. Thank you!
Answer 531824d3631fe9e4c1002ac2
Answer 5318ad809c4e9dc4930006b7
This worked just fine:
# Assign the variable meal the value 44.50 on line 3!
meal = 44.50 tax = 0.0675 tip = 0.15
total = ((meal * tax) * tip)
print (total)
Answer 534703957c82ca5c340001b9
Though the code gave me error but it also passed.It looks like site has some issues
Assign the variable total on line 8!
meal = 44.50 tax = 0.0675 tip = 0.15
total = meal + meal*tax +
print(“%.2f” % total)
File “python”, line 8 total = meal + meal*tax + ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Answer 534704709c4e9df65f0001c5
Answer 545597ca631fe9d8e300383d
I tried that method but it would not work. So I just hacked around thoughtlessly. Then I hit total = meal + meal*tip, and took ‘’tax” out of the line. So if I figure correctly, it worked because (meal * tax) had already been used and was now stored in the value “meal”. So I just added + tip and luckily it worked.. because I CANNOT do math at all and any extra math work would have eluded me.
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1 comments
No problem. Same error, said my math didn’t add up, and I remembered one lesson in HTML where the way someone passed was to delete the code between the tags. So, as I said, I threw in my own stuff, and it eventually worked.