Answer to Question #305979 in Python for Pyara

Question

At one college, the tuition for a full-time student is $8,000 per semester. It has been announced that the tuition will increase by 3 percent each year for the next 5 years. Write a program with a loop that displays the projected semester tuition amount for the next 5 years. 

The program should print out the result in the form

In 1 year, the tuition will be $8002.3.

In 2 years, the tuition will be $8103.2.

In 3 years, …

In 4 years, …

In 5 years, …

(If, for example, the tuition would cost 8002.3dollars in one year, etc.)

Sample Run

In 1 year, the tuition will be $8240.0.↵ 

In 2 years, the tuition will be $8487.2.↵ 

In 3 years, the tuition will be $8741.816.↵ 

In 4 years, the tuition will be $9004.07048.↵ 

In 5 years, the tuition will be $9274.192594400001.

Answer 1

you don't sum tuition_total value to tuition_total value calculated from the previous step try it on following way.

tuition_total = ((tuition * tuition_increase) + tuition) + tuition_total

or

tuition_total += (tuition * tuition_increase) + tuition