Total Purchase (SOWP Ch. 2 Problem 4) : A customer in a store is purchasing five items. Write a program that asks for the price of each item, then displays the subtotal of the sale, the amount of sales tax, and the total. Assume the sales tax is 7.25%.

Here is the python program:

item_price1 = float (input ("Enter price of 1st item:"))

item_price2 = float (input ("Enter price of 2nd item: "))

item_price3 = float (input ("Enter price of 3rd item: "))

item_price4 = float (input ("Enter price of 4th item: "))

item_price5 = float (input ("Enter price of 5th item: "))

sub_total_of_sale = (item_price1 + item_price2 + item_price3 + item_price4 + item_price5)

amount_of_sales_tax = sub_total_of_sale * 0.0725

total = sub_total_of_sale + amount_of_sales_tax

print ("Sub Total of the Sale is: ", sub_total_of_sale)

print ("The amount of sales tax is: ", amount_of_sales_tax)

print ("Total is: ", total)

Explanation:

This program first prompts the user to enter price of 5 items and input () function is used here to let the user enter the price.

Next the sub_total_of_sale variable stores the sum of all these 5 items

amount_of_sales_tax stores the sum of sale tax which is 7.25% and sub total of 5 items. here 0.0725 means 7.25/100

total holds the sum of sub total of price of 5 items and sales tax.

Lastly it displays sub total of sale, amount of sales tax and total using print statement.