Can u tell me why my version doesn't work but the second one works?

Question

Task is: continue

You are making a ticketing system.
The price of a single ticket is $100.
For children under 3 years old, the ticket is free.

Your program needs to take the ages of 5 passengers as input and output the total price for their tickets.

Sample Input
18
24
2
5
42

Sample Output
400

My try that doesn't work is:

ticket = 100
total = 0
passengers = 5
while passengers >= 0:
age = int(input())
passengers -= 1
if age < 3:
continue
else:
total += ticket
print(total)

this one works, but why?

ticket = 100
total = 0
passengers = 1
while passengers <= 5:
age = int(input())
passengers += 1
if age < 3:
continue
else:
total += ticket
print(total)

I already noticed that I can cut out the else part in the working one to this code:

ticket = 100
total = 0
passengers = 1
while passengers <= 5:
age = int(input())
passengers += 1
if age > 3:
total += ticket
print(total)

Answer 1

Hi Kobe!
Your updated code works fine here too. But Sololearn code playground works little different than other ides. In that alert(input)box, we have to provide all inputs at one time in a new line.
For example,
18
24
2
5
42
Now hit the submit

ticket = 100
total = 0
passengers = 5
while passengers > 0:
age = int(input())
passengers -= 1
if age > 3:
total += ticket
print(total)

Answer 2

Kobe Kramer

Because you have written >= 0 and your variable passengers declared with 5 so while loop will work 6 times.

Change >= 0 to > 0

Answer 3

Kobe you have a logic error in your second code attempt. You use the test if age >3:, but in the challenge it says children under 3 are free. Which means a ticket for a child that is 3 should be $100.

Answer 4

Ahhhh, thank you! Was confused why it works in other programs :D

Answer 5

Thanks I saw that after I posted it :D But it doesn't even run. It says "Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usercode/file0.py", line 5, in <module>
age = int(input())
EOFError: EOF when reading a line"

I tested it in PyCharm but the code works there. Any ideas?

Changed the 6th input. This works in PyCharm but not here:

ticket = 100
total = 0
passengers = 5
while passengers > 0:
age = int(input())
passengers -= 1
if age > 3:
total += ticket
print(total)