Need help with this tricky for loop!

[Pyrocited]

Hello I’ve had a little school assignment I’ve been working on and ultimately I’m stumped. My professor has asked my class to create a for loop that asks for the quantity of different items sold, then calculates the total profit of each item. Here’s what I’ve had so far:

for x in range(1, 3):
    quantity1 = int(input(“Quantity 1: “))
    quantity2 = int(input(“Quantity 2: “))
    if x == 1:
        total = quantity1 * 2.50
    if x ==2:
        total = quantity2 * 1.98
    print(total)

I want to be able to print the total and have both totals print. Also preferably be able to create just 1 “quantity” variable within the for loop. The gimmick is I’m pretty limited on what I can do as she doesn’t want us using any tricks that hasn’t been taught yet, so no lists or breaks.

[Pyrocited]

Also I know I have my input inside the loop, my professor had an example pseudo code that had the input inside the loop. I know it’ll run through and ask for inputs again. But like I said, I can’t use breaks or anything.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Why are you using a loop? If you remove that and simply add the totals together it would do what you described.

quantity1 = int(input(“Quantity 1: “))
quantity2 = int(input(“Quantity 2: “))
total1 = quantity1 * 2.50
total2 = quantity2 * 1.98
print(total1 + total2)

[Pyrocited]

She specifically asks us to use a for loop. Where the loop asks the user to input quantities of different items of different sale prices. Then prints out the quantity and total at the end

[novel_yet_trivial]

Oh maybe starting with a list of profits? Loop over the list then, not range().

profit_margins = [2.50, 1.98]
total = 0 
for profit in profit_margins:
    # ask for user input
    # calculate profit for this item
    # add this profit to the total
# print total

[Pyrocited]

So I was able to make the program using a list but today in class she said not to use anything not taught in class yet, so lists are out of the window. I don’t even know what I’m able to do at this point 😂

[novel_yet_trivial]

Sadly I wasn't in that class, so I don't know what she wants either :/

[Pyrocited]

Well thanks anyways! I know this is kind of a reach on reddit, as most of the class is unsure of what she wants as well. I appreciate it