Exercise 4.6 Python For Everybody

4.6 Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate per hour using input to compute gross pay. Pay should be the normal rate for hours up to 40 and time-and-a-half for the hourly rate for all hours worked above 40 hours. Put the logic to do the computation of pay in a function called computepay() and use the function to do the computation. The function should return a value. Use 45 hours and a rate of 10.50 per hour to test the program (the pay should be 498.75). You should use input to read a string and float() to convert the string to a number. Do not worry about error checking the user input unless you want to – you can assume the user types numbers properly. Do not name your variable sum or use the sum() function.

Solution: 

hrs = input("Enter Hours: ")
h = float(hrs)
rate = float(input("Enter Rate: "))

def computepay(h, rate):
    if h <= 40:
        return h * rate
    else:
        return (40 * rate) + ((h - 40) * rate * 1.5)

p = computepay(h, rate)

print("Pay", p)