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Question 41

Amara is writing a program to calculate the total price of four items. Her first attempt at the program is shown below.

p = input("Enter price of item 1: ")
q = input("Enter price of item 2: ")
r = input("Enter price of item 3: ")
s = input("Enter price of item 4: ")
t = p + q + r + s
print("The total is: " + t)

Give two ways that the maintainability of this program could be improved.

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Programming fundamentals

95 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Programming fundamentals. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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Question 41

Amara is writing a program to calculate the total price of four items. Her first attempt at the program is shown below.

p = input("Enter price of item 1: ")
q = input("Enter price of item 2: ")
r = input("Enter price of item 3: ")
s = input("Enter price of item 4: ")
t = p + q + r + s
print("The total is: " + t)

Give two ways that the maintainability of this program could be improved.

[2]

Markscheme

Programming fundamentals Questions

GCSE
Computer Science
Programming fundamentals

95 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Programming fundamentals. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.