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Greetings. I am working on creating a calculator in python. My objective is to create a basic calculator to return the repair value and estimated profit. I keep getting error messages. Here is my code below along with the error message.

 

print("Welcome to Value Estimator")


Value_1 = int(input("Please enter the value of target home:"))

a1 = int(input("Please enter the value of the sales price of home #1:"))

a2 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #2:"))

a3 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #3:"))

a4 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #4:"))

a5 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #5:"))

avg_sales_price = (a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5)/ 5

print("Average sales price for homes in area is", avg_sales_price)

ARV = str(avg_sales_price)

print("The ARV for this home:" + ARV)


def repair_cost():

    if Value_1 <= 30000:
        repair_cost = (60000) - (Value_1)
        
    elif Value_1 >= 30000:
        repair_cost = (Value_1) + 17000

repair_cost(Value_1)

profit = str(avg_sales_price) - str(Value_1) - str(repair_cost)

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Cupid/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37/spreadsheet.py", line 33, in <module>
    repair_cost(Value_1)
TypeError: repair_cost() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given

repair_cost(Value_1) has been passed a variable but the function def repair_cost(): does not except one.

Also further issues
repair_cost has been used as a function name and a variable name
values are turned into strings to do calculations.

Change

def repair_cost():

to

def calc_repair_cost(Value_1):

Add return repair_cost to the end of function calc_repair_cost

Change

repair_cost(Value_1)

to

repair_cost = calc_repair_cost(Value_1)

Remove the string conversions from

profit = str(avg_sales_price) - str(Value_1) - str(repair_cost)

Thank you for your help, i am trying to add an additional function onto the end that tells me whether a home is a good investment or not, but I am not getting the result that i am looking for. Here is my code

print("Welcome to Value Estimator")


Value_1 = int(input("Please enter the value of target home:"))

a1 = int(input("Please enter the value of the sales price of home #1:"))

a2 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #2:"))

a3 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #3:"))

a4 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #4:"))

a5 = int(input("Please enter the sales price of home #5:"))

avg_sales_price = (a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5)/ 5

print("Average sales price for homes in area is", avg_sales_price)

ARV = str(avg_sales_price)

print("The ARV for this home:" + ARV)


def calc_repair_cost(Value_1):

    if Value_1 <= 30000:
        repair_cost = (60000) - (Value_1)
        
    elif Value_1 >= 30000:
        repair_cost = 20000
    return repair_cost

repair_cost = calc_repair_cost(Value_1)

print("The repair cost for the home is:", + repair_cost)

total_investment = Value_1 + repair_cost

def home_rating(Value_1):
    if total_investment >= 60000:
        home_rating = False
    elif total_investment <= 60000:
        home_rating = True
    return home_rating 

worthy_investment = home_rating(Value_1)

if home_rating == True:
    print("This home is worth a look")
elif home_rating == False:
    print("This is not a good home")