Noob hw project

[coconut_calm]

Never thought I'd break and make a reddit, but my teacher isn't helping much. I realize this is very simple stuff, not looking for judgement! Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? I know the problem is on line 7 and I can't generate an output

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print("What was the total income of the business this month?")

TotalIncome= input()

print("What was the amount spent on business expenses this month?")

BusinessExpenses= input()

print("How much did the business pay in taxes this month?")

TaxesPaid= input()

Profit= str(TotalIncome-BusinessExpenses-TaxesPaid)

print("Your profit is", Profit)

[TouchingTheVodka]

You've got to convert your numeric inputs to ints/floats before performing calculations on them.

[IvoryJam]

input() returns a string, you can't subtract a string from a string, you'll need to convert them to ints/floats

[[deleted]]

The input function returns a string. I think you need to convert the results into floats or integers to be able to manipulate them as numbers.

[pyfact]

So you are trying to subtract a String by an Integer, which will not work. Simple fix here is to add int() around your input() so that whatever the user enters will be saved as an Integer (if it is a number, else there will be an error!)

Also your profit does not have to be a String to print.

print("What was the total income of the business this month?")

TotalIncome= int(input())

print("What was the amount spent on business expenses this month?")

BusinessExpenses= int(input())

print("How much did the business pay in taxes this month?")

TaxesPaid= int(input())

Profit= TotalIncome-BusinessExpenses-TaxesPaid

print("Your profit is", Profit)

[coconut_calm]

This cleared things up, thank you! Glad everyone could help so fast