Question

A local department store hires you to write an automated checkout program designed specifically for their express checkout lane. The express lane is limited to five items for any one purchase. Write a simple program using Python that prompts the user for the prices of five individual items and then calculates and displays the subtotal, sales tax, and total. The sales tax is 6 percent.

Example output:

C:\>python week1.py

Welcome to the Express Lane!

Enter the first price: 5.00

Enter the second price: 6.15

Enter the third price: 7.95

Enter the fourth price: 42.99

Enter the final price: 12.70

subtotal: 74.79

sales tax: 4.49

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total: 79.28

print("welcome to the express lane")
cost1 = float(input("5.00:"))
cost2 = float(input("6.15:"))
cost3 = float(input("7.95:"))
cost4 = float(input("42.99:"))
cost5 = float(input("12.70:"))
subTotal = (cost1 + cost2 + cost3 + cost4 + cost5)
print("subTotal", subTotal)
tax = (subTotal * .06)
tax = round(tax, 2)
print("sales tax", tax)
total = tax + subTotal
print("your total", total)

THIS IS NOT WORKING! NEED HELP PLEASE!

Answer 1

Hey here is the code which is working perfectly .

you had some small errors in your code which i corrected.

print("welcome to the express lane")
cost1 = float(input("Enter the first price:"))
cost2 = float(input("Enter the second price:"))
cost3 = float(input("Enter the third price:"))
cost4 = float(input("Enter the fourth price:"))
cost5 = float(input("Enter the final price:"))
subTotal = (cost1 + cost2 + cost3 + cost4 + cost5)
print("subTotal : "+ str(subTotal))
tax = (subTotal * .06)
tax = round(tax, 2)
print("sales tax : "+ str(tax))
total = tax + subTotal
print("total : "+ str(total))