Question

Please help me with this problem below

What is wrong with the following code?

if income < 20000:

tax = .05

elif income >=20000:

tax = .10

elif income >=50000:

tax = .15

Would the answer be that the last elif statement is not needed. Therefore the fixed answer would be:

if income < 20000:

tax = .05

elif income >=20000:

tax = .10

else:

tax = .15

??

Answer 1

The problem in the above code is last elif income >=50000:   will be dead code, ie it wont be satisfied for any of the input as previous elif income >=20000: condition get satisfied if the income is more than 20000.

                Similarly for the second code last else: condition wont work .

If you want to add the condition to check if income >=50000: then do as follows

if income < 20000:

              tax = .05

elif income >=20000 and income<50000:

                 tax = .10

else:

                 tax = .15