how to calculate shipping cost with discount

March 29, 2022

I am trying to solve a homework problem where I input a price, weight, and distance to work out the total cost for a customer. The problem I have is I need to apply a discount based on how far the distance is for example 500 miles = 15% discount, but when I tried I break my code. see attached the code.

base = float(input("How much is the base price?: "))
weight = float(input("What is the weight?: "))
distance = float(input("What is the distance?: "))

if distance <250:
    discount += 0% # no discount
elif distance >= 250 and distance <= 500:
    discount += 10% # 10 % discount
elif distance >= 500 and distance <= 1000:
    discount += 15% # 15% discount
elif distance >= 1000 and distance <= 2000:
    discount += 20% # 20% discount
    elif distance >= 2000 and distance <= 3000:
    discount += 35 % # 35% discount
elif distance >= 3000:
    discount += 50% # 50% discount

sum = base * weight * distance *(1 - discount)
print("The shipping cost is: ",sum)

I need to use the equation sum = baseprice * weight * distance * (1 – discount).

thanks in advance

>Solution :

Here are the changes needed:

10% -> 0.1
+= -> =
Wrong indent on one of ifs
Remove ands

10% is not a valid format, use values between 0 and 1 instead.

Since discount is not getting added to (it is defined), = should be used.

Since your are using elif there is no need to add and check.

Here is a working code:

base = float(input("How much is the base price?: "))
weight = float(input("What is the weight?: "))
distance = float(input("What is the distance?: "))

if distance <250:
    discount = 0 # no discount
elif distance >= 250:
    discount = 0.1 # 10 % discount
elif distance >= 500:
    discount = 0.15 # 15% discount
elif distance >= 1000:
    discount = 0.20 # 20% discount
elif distance >= 2000:
    discount = 0.35 # 35% discount
elif distance >= 3000:
    discount = 0.5 # 50% discount

sum = base * weight * distance *(1 - discount)
print("The shipping cost is: ",sum)