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I have tried to go about this and I can't get it to run. What am I doing wrong????

def price(pencil, book, discount, state_tax, shipping):
    pencil = 5
    book = 5
    discount = .30
    state_tax = .5
    shipping = 7.50
    price_1 = pencil + book + discount + state_tax +shipping
    print = price_1

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It is hard to guess what you wanted to achieve with this code, and much of it doesn't make sense. One way to make it run (if it was intended so at all) is like this:

def price(pencil, book, discount, state_tax, shipping):
    pencil = 5
    book = 5
    discount = .30
    state_tax = .5
    shipping = 7.50
    price_1 = pencil + book + discount + state_tax +shipping
    print(price_1)

price(1,2,3,4,5)

Function price() requires 5 arguments, but none of them are used in the function. Another variant of your code would be this:

def price(pencil, book, discount, state_tax, shipping):
    price_1 = pencil + book + discount + state_tax + shipping
    print(price_1)

price(5, 5, .30, .5, 7.5)

Though I doubt about the proper use of discount and state tax given the selected variable names.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried the simplified version. I get this error

TypeError: price_1() missing 4 required positional arguments: 'book', 'discount', 'state_tax', and 'shipping'

Error means you defined a function that expects 4 arguments (they are named in error message), but you called it with no arguments passed (empty braces).