ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'Pencil'

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The error is telling you it cannot convert the string "Pencil" into a number. Are you remembering that lists start with 0 and not 1?

Prior to doing any calculations use print statements to see what values words[1], words[3] and words[4] actually contain.