On Sunday, February 2, 2014 11:11:07 AM UTC-5, David Hutto wrote: > price_per_book = 24.95 > > discount = .40 > > quantity = 60 > > > > Here: > > discounted_price = (1-discount) * price_per_book > > > > The discounted price should be price_per_book - discount > > > > shipping = 3.0 + (60 - 1) * .75 > > shipping should be, I think, should be 3.0 + (quantity * .75) > > > > total_price = 60 * discounted_price + shipping > > replace 60 with quantity (quantity * discounted_price) + shipping > > > > print total_price, 'Total price' > > > > total_price gives: > > 945.45 Total price > > and just 24.55(price per book - discount is ) * quantity is $1473 without the > shipping, so the total is way off already: > > > > > > I think the following is what you're looking for: > > > > price_per_book = 24.95 > > discount = .40 > > quantity = 60 > > discounted_price = price_per_book-discount > > shipping = 3.0 + (quantity*.75) > > total_price = (quantity * discounted_price) + shipping > > print 'Total price: $%d' % (total_price) > > Total price: $1521
My bad, I thought you were using $0.40 as a discount -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
