Write a Python program for the following

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You go to a stationary shop where pens are sold in a specific manner. The first pen costs Rs. x, second one costs Rs. 2x, and nth pen costs Rs. nx. If you want y pens, and have only Rs. w with which you went to the shop with, then you have to buy some on credit (owing the shopkeeper). Write a program to compute how much you will owe based on the input provided. The input will contain 3 integers, x (cost of the first pen), then w (amount of money you went to shop with), then n (number of pens that you need). Output the amount of money you will owe the shopkeeper.

What I have tried:

x = int(input())
w = int(input())
n = int(input())

credit = n*(n+1)*x/2 - w
print (credit)

This code is not functioning on mimir

Posted 19-Apr-22 0:38am

study lover

Updated 19-Apr-22 1:39am

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CPallini 19-Apr-22 7:06am

The program looks correct.
Whats' the trouble with Mimir?
(note you may use integer division (//), because n*(n+1) is always even.

study lover 19-Apr-22 7:12am

One of the test case is negative why?

Patrice T 19-Apr-22 7:43am

And you plan to tell the inputs of that test case ?

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2022-04-19T01:33:00

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One of the test case is negative why?

At a guess - and since we can't see the test case data at all that's all it can be - n*(n+1)*x/2 is less than w

Think about it: each time you go shopping and pay in cash, do you ever owe the shopkeeper a negative amount of money? Or do you owe him nothing if you pay X and have X + 10 in your pocket?

Posted 19-Apr-22 1:33am

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study lover 19-Apr-22 7:49am

so how to solve this problem

OriginalGriff 19-Apr-22 8:16am

How do *you* think?

This isn't complicated - just think about what you would do in a real world situation.

It's beginning to look like you are trying to learn this by guesswork, instead of following a structured course or book ... and if so, you won't ever get anywhere useful ...

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2022-04-19T01:39:00

Solution 2

Your time would be better spent actually learning Python from the beginning, rather than posting here: The Python Tutorial — Python 3.9.12 documentation[^]

Posted 19-Apr-22 1:39am

Richard MacCutchan

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study lover 19-Apr-22 7:51am

I am trying questions to learn from my mistakes and I have learned few basics and was unable to identify my mistakes

Richard MacCutchan 19-Apr-22 8:05am

Which is exactly why I suggested you study the tutorial, as that will teach you in a structured manner. Trying to learn by posting questions here every time your code does not work will take you forever.