cant figure out whats wrong

[bojak71730]

Suppose that you want to compare the cost per megabyte of two Hard Drives and print them. The price for the 80GB model is U$100 and the price for the 120GB model is US$115

Hints: Create the names price and capacity, attribute values to then and print

i was trying to do this and i cant figure it out

[Alter Lobo]

Post what you have tried so far so we can help you.

[bojak71730]

hdd1 = 100
hdd2 = 115
print hdd1, -, hdd2, ="  "
says its invalid

[Alter Lobo]

Try this:

Code

hdd1 = 100
hdd2 = 115
print hdd1, '-', hdd2, '=', hdd1 - hdd2

[bojak71730]

that made it do - 115 = -15 ur tryin to find the difference which is 15 but im tryin to get it to do the math for me

[jsheedy]

I have never done anything with python, but from the short bit of the tutorial I have gone through I am not sure that someone without some type of programming would be able to get it.

for example

>>> capacity = 80
>>> price = 100
>>> print "results: ", capacity/price

result =0

price is an integer I am guessing not a really number, so the result would be 0

only when I changed it to price=100.00, would it work. 

Not sure if there is some other way around it, heck I don't even program.

[Alter Lobo]

The precision of the result will be that of the most precise operand. If you want floating point precision then at least one of the operands must be a float.

This page at the beginning of the tutorial touches this matter:
http://programming-crash-course.com/the_calculator

Also take a look at this:
http://programming-crash-course.com/integer_versus_float_division

[jsheedy]

The precision of the result will be that of the most precise operand. If you want floating point precision then at least one of the operands must be a float.

This page at the beginning of the tutorial touches this matter:
http://programming-crash-course.com/the_calculator

Well that makes sense.

Also take a look at this:
http://programming-crash-course.com/integer_versus_float_division

I will have to do that, thanks