Help me to understand this. I’m stuck.

Question

You’re making a shopping cart program.

The shopping cart is declared as a list of prices, and you need to add functionality to apply a discount and output the total price.

Take the discount percentage as input, calculate and output the total price for the shopping cart

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Yes, you don't have to print the price of each item after discount. Only print the total cost after discount. So, the print function should be outside the loop.

Answer 3

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I started with beginning course to improve by time from 0.
Do you have any other tips you want to offer me? Am i in the right path to become proffecional?

Answer 4

Given: The price of items in a shopping cart as a list

To do:
(i) Accept the discount percentage as input
[Do not forget that input() function returns a value of the data type 'String']

(ii) Use a for loop and iterate through each item in the cart and calculate the total price after applying discount
[Formula is already given
For X% discount on $Y price: Y - (Y*X/100)]

If your input is x and y is the price, then iterate the for loop with y.

Eg: cart = [ ]
x = int(input())
total = 0
for y in cart:
total = ________
print(total)

Answer 5

Still broke!
I think if i add the formula to total each time, and i take print function outside for loop, then it should work.

for y in cart:
Total+= y-(y*x/100)
print(total)

Answer 6

Thank you☺ All the best to your learning!!