Can someone please help me write the code

[Ram]

Hei, I am beginer in python. Can someone please help me write the code for below.
There are 150 apples on a tree. They are increased by 15% every week.
how many number of apples will we get after 5 weeks.
thank you.

[Larz60+]

We will not do your homework for you.
Please make an effort, show what you have for code, and then ask specific questions about areas where you are having a problem.

[ibreeden]

First you should try how you would do this if you had no computer.
You would increment the number by multiplying the number of apples with 1.15. You would repeat this 5 times. Then you would have the answer. This is the algorithm.
Now write this in Python code.

[Ram]

I had written this code, But it is showing for 1 week, How can I multiply this to get it for 5 weeks.
apples=150
increase_per_week=apples/100*15
per_one_week=apples+increase_per_week
print(per_one_week)

Answer:172.5

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[Milan]

If I understood it right, you just have to repeat what you have done there five times.

Hint: Maybe using a loop would help

[deanhystad]

Be smart with you calculations. Do you need to know the increase per week or do you just need to know the total after 5 weeks?

start = 150
week 1 = start * 1.15
week 2 = week 1 * 1.15
week 3 = week 2 * 1.15
week 4 = week 3 * 1.15
week 5 = week 4 * 1.15

Or

week 5 = 150 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 1.15
week 5 = 150 * 1.15^5

You may want to correct the result to eliminate partial apples.

This can be made to work for the general case when you specify the starting value, the increase rate and the number of increase periods.

The first step in writing code is solving the problem. Once you solve the problem it is fairly simple to translate the solution to code.

[ibreeden]

week 5 = 150 * 1.15^5

Haha @deanhystad, that is indeed the most intelligent way to solve the problem.
But I believe Ram needs to learn how to repeat blocks of code.
@Ram: did you already learned about range()? Like this:

for i in range(5):
    apples = apples * 1.15

If you have not then you should do something with the while statement.

[deanhystad]

You should solve the problem as described in the statement of work. The statement of work says:

There are 150 apples on a tree. They are increased by 15% every week.
how many number of apples will we get after 5 weeks.

This could be done with a loop, but that is not a good choice for solving this problem. You wouldn't do this would you?

# Calculate 5 squared
result = 1
for _ in range(5):
    result = result * 5

Just because you are writing programs for a programming class it doesn't mean you should turn off you brain. If I was teaching the course I would fail everyone who used a loop for this assignment.

[Serafim]

I would argue that the intended solution depends on the full exercise text and the current focus in the course at the time the exercise was given and we have neither of them. It would be nice to learn about both before the final judgement...