🔒 Homework assignment chapter 5

[silver ferry]

@sand wave

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[sand wave]

need some help rewriting it

[humble zinc]

why rewrite it

or do u mean refactoring it so stuff is in functions like it asked ?

[sand wave]

yeah

thats what i meant

[sand wave]

what would be a good start

[sand wave]

@humble zinc you able to help?

[humble zinc]

well first of all, what are all the subtasks

[sand wave]

thats an amazing question actually

would it be one of the tax types?

[humble zinc]

i suppose so in this case

[sand wave]

Amountspent = float(input("Enter Amount: "))

Statetaxrate = 0.05
print(f"State sales tax: {Statetaxrate:.1%}")

Countytaxrate = 0.025
Statetax = Amountspent * Statetaxrate
Countytax = Amountspent * Countytaxrate

print(f"County sales tax: {Countytaxrate:.1%}")

Totaltax = Statetax + Countytax
Totalsale = Amountspent + Totaltax

print("State sales tax: $", format(Statetax, ",.2f"))
print("County sales tax: $", format(Countytax, ",.2f"))
print("Total sales tax: $", format(Totaltax, ",.2f"))
print("Total sale: $", format(Totalsale, ",.2f"))

[silver ferry]

Hey @sand wave!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[sand wave]

thats my original code

[humble zinc]

so what kind of taxes we got here

[sand wave]

county tax

state tax

total tax

[humble zinc]

so those are our subtasks

one calculates county tax

one calculats state tax

one calculates total tax

[sand wave]

yep.

[humble zinc]

so make 3 functions to start off, 1 for each of those subtasks

[sand wave]

ok bett

[sand wave]

i'd use def

right?

[humble zinc]

yes

[sand wave]

so

ughh

im confused on how to use it

def

[humble zinc]

its very simple actually

[humble zinc]

def function_name(function_paramaters):
    # function code goes here
    # do note the indent
    # these comments are inside function
# this one is not

[sand wave]

ok

so i remove the def amount spent

right?

[humble zinc]

ye

[sand wave]

okay okay

what else would i do

from here

[humble zinc]

thats not the syntax for def

look at how i wrote it

[humble zinc]

.

[sand wave]

ok

so lik this?

[humble zinc]

u missing 3 key details, the () the : and the indents

[humble zinc]

yup those bottom 2 look good

[sand wave]

i think I might have mixed it up

ok

uhhh

is there anything else i have to do now

to complete the question

[humble zinc]

well u have to make the code work just like before now

first of all, calculate_state_tax, is the code inside that function calculating state tax ?

[sand wave]

fixed

[humble zinc]

now what about calculate_state_tax, thats one of the subtasks we need as function

[sand wave]

how would i

what do i change about it?

[humble zinc]

well first of all, make the def syntax like the others so its valid syntax

second of all, make the code inside the actual state tax calculation

[sand wave]

how would i go about that

I would do

state_tax = amount*Statetaxrate

[humble zinc]

calculating state tax should have been exercise #6 in chapter 2

i got no clue of specifics

[sand wave]

I think i added it

[sand wave]

this shoudl work hopefully

@humble zinc ok so

i tried reworking it

and NOTHING WORKED

at all

so i reverted back to what i originally had

Whats the best way to go about this

[wheat apex]

hellooooo how can I help

[red otter]

you still need help ??

[sweet hull]

Your calculation of tax is the same in all cases. Might just want to have a single tax-calculating function.

[silver ferry]

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