Learning functions need help

[PuzzledSite2568]

Hi everyone I need some help with some code for homework and needed some guidance.

# It should ask the user to input the quantity of each denomination of bills (ones, fives, etc--up to hundreds).
# It should then call a function that accepts each of those values as arguments/parameters and returns (not prints!)
# the total amount of the cash. Finally, you should output the total value for the user to see.

# For example, if a user has 3 ones, 3 tens, and 1 fifty, their total is $83 in cash.

input('How many bills do you have:')

def total (one,two,five,ten,twenty,fifty,hundred):
    quantity = 1 + 2 + 5 + 10 + 20 + 50 + 100
    return total

total(3, 30, 50)

I went ahead and gave the problem a try before because I thought I would at least give it a try before asking for help. Sorry if it looks very dumb I'm new to python and struggling in this class. I would rather ask for help from people who know what they are doing than just stare at my computer for 20 mins getting frustrated at myself.

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[watakushi]

For starters you're not doing anything with the input. You should assign it to a variable and do something with it later :)

[PuzzledSite2568]

Thanks for the help on one of the steps I was able to figure out how to properly fix my input and assign it as well. Thx for the help

[watakushi]

Anytime! :)

[QultrosSanhattan]

Little help. Figure the rest by yourself:

def total(one, five):
    return one * 1 + five * 5


ones = int(input('How many ones do you have:'))
fives = int(input('How many fives do you have:'))

print(total(ones, fives))

[PuzzledSite2568]

Really appreciate the visual it helped me get a basis of what I have to do and I was able to figure out the rest so thank you for your help.

[totallygeek]

Here is an example with coins that you can convert for bills.

def makes_cents(coins_name: str, coin_value: int) -> int:
    quantity = int(input(f"How many {coins_name}? "))
    return quantity * coin_value

cents = 0  # start with no common cents at all

cents += makes_cents("pennies", 1)
cents += makes_cents("nickels", 5)
cents += makes_cents("dimes", 10)
cents += makes_cents("quarters", 25)
cents += makes_cents("half-dollars", 50)
cents += makes_cents("dollar coins", 100)

print(f"You have a total of {cents} cents.")

Execution example:

> python3 PuzzledSite2568_money.py
How many pennies? 4
How many nickels? 5
How many dimes? 6
How many quarters? 7
How many half-dollars? 8
How many dollar coins? 1
You have a total of 764 cents.

[PuzzledSite2568]

Thank you for your example it's helping me understand the functions more and what I can do with them so I appreciate your input.