Question

Python: Practice has just begun for you as a star track athlete . You start out running "a" miles on day 1, but need to be able to run "b" mile by your big track meet. Calculate how many days you will need for you to reach the required distance for your big meet, given that you increase your running distance by 5 percent each day from the day before. Return one value that represents the number of days to reach that goal.

Answer 1

def run(a, b):
days = 0
total = 0
#run until total is less than miles needed to run(b)
while(total < b):
#running 'a' number of miles.
total += a
days += 1
#updating value of a
a = a + (a*0.05)

return days

b = float(input("Enter the number of miles to complete before the meet: "))
a = float(input("Enter the number of miles completed in day 1: "))

print("Number of days to complete", b, "miles in ", run(a, b), "days.")

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