Greetings:
I have two comments to make.
First, I recommend renaming your variables to be more clear. For example:
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speedlimit = input("Please enter the legal speed limit: ")
clockedspeed = input("Please enter the clocked speed limit: ")
excessspeed = clockedspeed - speedlimit
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Next, you really have two questions to answer, the second of which depends
upon the first:
1. Was the person speeding?
2. If so, was the person exceeding 90?
I recommend handling this with nested if statements and calculating the fine
only if the person was actually speeding, like this:
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if excessspeed > 0:
fine = 50 + 5 * excessspeed
if clockedspeed >= 90:
fine += 200
print "The total amount due is", fine
else:
print "The speed was legal."
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This should give you the results you want.
BGC
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>amount is supposed to equal fine because there are a couple of different
>fines. there is a fine for going over 90mph that includes a penalty and
>then
>there is a fine for just going over the speed limit as long as it is under
>90.
>
>
>> Is amount suppose to equal total instead of fine?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 13 October 2005 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> def main():
>>> ? ? actual = input("Please enter the legal speed limit: ")
>>> ? ? clocked = input("Please enter the clocked speed limit: ")
>>> ? ? speedlimit = clocked - actual
>>>
>>> ? ? fine = 50 + 5*speedlimit
>>> ? ? total = 200 + fine
>>> ? ? amount = fine
>>>
>>> ? ? if speedlimit < 90:
>>> ? ? ? ? print "The total amount due is", amount
>>>
>>> ? ? elif speedlimit >= 90:
>>> ? ? ? ? print "The total amount due is", total
>>>
>>> ? ? else:
>>> ? ? ? ? print "The speed was legal."
>>>
>>>
>>> main()
>>
>>
>>
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