[SOLVED] Finding the amount of dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and pennys in a change given

Question

Hey guys!

Do any of you guys knows how to find the number of dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and pennys if let's say I've paid $110 for the items pricing $102.80., and given $7.20 back for the change.

The output should be:
Change: $7.20
Dollar: 7.00
Quarter: 0.20
Dime: 0.00
Pennys: 0.00.

#What I did for the dollar is
#and the only thing that was right.

chge = 7.20
doll = int(chge/1.0)

print("Dollar:", doll)

Answer 1

Hey @Samantha, I don't really understand the value of dime & penny, how many of those to make a dollar? I understand a quarter is one fourth a dollar, and a cent is one hundredth of a dollar, aren't dime & penny used with pound? sorry if it sounds silly, but I just don't know.

Here's my idea (with what I know) about it:

1. Check if chg < 1, if so, it's less than 1 dollar, skip step 2 if this is the case.

2. Get the dollar by extracting the integer part, the quarter, etc are in the fraction part, e.g:

change=7.20
dollar=7 (use int()), then subtract change by dollar to get remainder (0.20)
no quarter found because remainder is less then 0.25

3. For the remainder of chg calculate how many dimes & pennies are there is by dividing remainder with their value.

Hth, cmiiw