What is up with the “Halloween Candy” question ?

Question

I hv been trying to solve this piece of work for an hour now wtf am I doing wrong ??

Code:

houses = int(input())

#your code goes here
candy = ((2/houses)*100)

if ((candy -int(candy)) >0.50):
print(int(int(candy)+1))
else:
print(int(candy))

Answer 1

Have your tried using math.ceil() function to round up the result

Answer 2

Toy that's because in the question, you have been told to round UP the number instead of rounding OFF the number.{ means 2.1 should be converted to 3 instead of 2 }

And your second code didn't work as it was incresing the number even if it was a whole number after division.

Answer 3

thanks Arsenic it worked
but im still a little confused
as to why my original code didnt work ?!

Answer 4

Arsenic thanks for the clarification 😀

Answer 5

also : I aslo used >= 0.50 before and Test 2 came negative

Answer 6

update:
I used the following code and still Test#2 failed:

houses = int(input())

#your code goes here
candy = ((2/houses)*100)
print(int(int(candy)+1))

Answer 7

In cas it was not obvious from the question im a big nub in python,
Now i will try math.ceil() function and update soon
thanks for suggestion