Coin Change Maker Python Program

Question

I am in a beginner programming course. We must do an exercise where we make a change maker program. The input has to be between 0-99 and must be represented in quarters, dimes, nickles, and pennies when the input is divided down between the four. I wrote a code that involved loops and whiles, but he wants something more easy and a smaller code. He gave me this as a way of helping me along:

c=int(input('Please enter an amount between 0-99:'))
print(c//25)
print(c%25)

He told us that this was basically all we needed and just needed to add in the dimes, nickles, and pennies. I try it multiple ways with the dimes, nickles, and pennies, but I cannot get the output right. Whenever I enter '99', I get 3 for quarters, 2 for dimes, 1 for nickles, and 0 for pennies. If anyone would be able to help me, that would be wonderful!

Answer 1

I'm now sure about what you want to achieve. Using the modulo operator you could easily find out how many quarters, dimes, nickles and pennies.

Let's just say you input 99.

c=int(input('Please enter an amount between 0-99:'))
print(c//25, "quarters")
c = c%25
print(c//10, "dimes")
c = c%10
print(c//5, "nickles")
c = c%5
print(c//1, "pennies")

this would print out:

3 quarters
2 dimes
0 nickles
4 pennies

Answer 2

n = int(input("Enter a number between 0-99"))
q = n // 25
n %= 25
d = n // 10
n %= 10
ni =  n // 5
n %= 5
c = n % 5
print(str(q) +" " + str(d) +" " + str(ni) + " " + str(c))

I hope this helps? Something like this but don't just copy it. Everytime you divide by 25 10 5 you must lose that part because it's already counted.At the end print what ever you want :).