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Find Average of User Input Defined number of Scores - DustinKlent - Oct-24-2019
I am attempting to write a short practice script that finds the average of a user defined number of scores.
Here is the code I have:
total = int(input('How many scores are there? '))
total_sum = 0
for i in range(total):
Scores = float(input('Enter a score : '))
total_sum += Scores
avg = Scores / total_sum
print ('The average of the scores is: ', avg)My goal is for this to calculate the average but it doesn't seem to be doing that. What it's doing is calculating something else. No matter how I change it up it keeps giving me odd answers. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
RE: Find Average of User Input Defined number of Scores - Larz60+ - Oct-25-2019
scores = []
while True:
try:
score = int(input('Enter a score or -1 to quit: '))
except ValueError:
print(f"Please enter a number")
continue
if score == -1:
break
scores.append(score)
print(f"Mean of scores is {sum(scores)/len(scores)}")