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I am just looking this over and was confused when reading the code again. How come when defining "split_check" we put (total, number_of_people). But when working on the wording of the coding we put total_due = float(input) etc etc and not "total" instead? Why do we change it from "total" to "total_due"?

import math

def split_check(total, number_of_people): cost_per_person = math.ceil(total / number_of_people) return cost_per_person

total_due = float(input("what is the total? ")) number_of_people = int(input("How many people? "))

amount_due = split_check(total_due, number_of_people)

print("Each person owes ${}".format(amount_due))

Answer 1 · 2021-01-13T14:57:00Z

January 13, 2021 2:57pm

import math

def split_check(total, number_of_people): 
    cost_per_person = math.ceil(total / number_of_people) 
    return cost_per_person

total_due = float(input("what is the total? ")) 
number_of_people = int(input("How many people? "))

amount_due = split_check(total_due, number_of_people)

print("Each person owes ${}".format(amount_due))

total is the argument being passed into the split_check method. It can only be used inside of that function. total_due is a variable that holds a float with the total amount due for the meal. This is then passed into the function below as the total argument for the function along with the variable for the number of people: amount_due = split_check(total_due, number_of_people)

If you want, you can change the name of total_due in the two places it appears to total and everything would still work the same. They are just variable names.

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