to write a code block on python that will answer the below

Question

Write a simple "shopping cart" program that asks the user for a series of product prices. Compute sales tax (7%) on each price and print out the new price to the user. Next, ask the user if they want to enter another price - if they do, repeat the process. If not, end the program.

 

Sample:

Enter an item price: 1.00

Tax on this item is 0.07 ; total price: 1.07

Enter another price? (yes or no): yes

Enter an item price: 2.00

Tax on this item is 0.14 ; total price: 2.14

Enter another price? (yes or no): yes

Enter an item price: 3.00

Tax on this item is 0.21 ; total price: 3.21

Enter another price? (yes or no): no

Answer 1

You first need to understand inputs. The input command waits for the user to put in information and saves it to a variable. For example:

x = input("Give me a number: ")

This should allow you to do the first part.

What you get from the user is saved as a string. But you want a number so you can do the tax math to it, so you first convert the variable into an integer with int() or a float with float(). Now the variable is a number you can do math with. This should allow you to do the second part the tax.

The final part is to continue the program or not. There are different ways to do this including using a while and variable, or an if statement and break. I'll quickly explain the while and variable.

If you put your entire code within a while loop, it will continue running until a certain condition is met. For example,

while running == True:

#This code will run until the variablle running is not true

You ask the person if they want to continue. The person responds with a yes and no using inputs as shown above, and the answer is saved into a variable. If you then check this variable using an if statement, you can decide to keep running = True or to change it into False. Something like:

running = True

while running == True:

#code does something

continue = input("Do I continue yes or no: ")

if continue == "yes":

running = True

elif continue == "no"

running = False

This should allow you to complete the third part of the question, which is to loop it until the user tells it to stop.

This assumes the user is friendly, and does not do any checks for if the user is inputting what you expect them to input