Question

Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate per hour using input to compute gross pay. Pay should be the normal rate for hours up to 40 and time-and-a-half for the hourly rate for all hours worked above 40 hours. Put the logic to do the computation of pay in a function called computepay() and use the function to do the computation. The function should return a value. Use 45 hours and a rate of 10.50 per hour to test the program (the pay should be 498.75). You should use input to read a string and float() to convert the string to a number. Do not worry about error checking the user input unless you want to - you can assume the user types numbers properly. Do not name your variable sum or use the sum() function.

Answer 1

Answer:

In this question,Pay should be the normal rate for hours up to 40 and time-and-a-half for the hourly rate for all hours worked above 40 hours.

def computepay(h,r):

   if h <= 40:

       pay = h * r

   elif h > 40:

       pay = 40 * r + (h-40) * r * 1.5

   return pay

# build a function to compute payment first.

hrs = raw_input("Enter Hours:")

h = float(hrs)

rate = raw_input("Enter rate:")

r = float(rate)

p = computepay(h,r)  

print p

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

def computepay(h,r):

   if (h>40) :  

       pay = (40*r)+(h-40)*1.5*r

   else:

       pay = (h*r)      

   return pay

try:

   inp = raw_input("Please enter hours: ")

   hours=float(inp)

   inp = raw_input("Please enter rate: ")

   rate= float(inp)

except:

   print "Please enter a number as input"

   quit()

print (computepay(hours,rate))