What is the best way to prompt for a decimal value with input containing string (please see the following code)

Question

area = 0
height = input("Please enter the Triangle HEIGHT Value: ")
width = input("Please enter the Triangle WIDTH value: ")

area = (width * height)/2

print("The area of the Triangle is %.2f: % area)

Answer 1

Pls whar language did use for this program

Answer 2

string you write in parentheses of input function doesn't do anything with your input.
but, remember - what you get from input is ALWAYS a string, so you need to explicitly convert it to a number if you want a number.
use int(input()) or float(input())

Answer 3

Many thanks Demeth!

The code, written in Python is as follows:

print("This program calculates the area of a triangle \nwith a given Width and Height input.")
print(" ")
area = 0
#prompt user for height and width values
height = int(input("What is the HEIGHT value?: "))
width = int(input("What is the WIDTH value?: "))
print(" ")
#Calculate the area of a triangle with input values
area = width * height/2

#printing formatted float value with 2 decimal places
print("The area of the Triangle would be %.2f" % area)