Question

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.

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def computepay(hours, rate_per_hour):
    # Normal pay here if less than 40
    if hours <= 40:
        gross_pay = hours * rate_per_hour
    # Here, we should add extra time and a half
    else:
        # calculate how many extra hours
        extra_hours = hours - 40

        # for the first 40 hours, calculate the normal rate
        gross_pay = 40 * rate_per_hour

        # for the extra hours, calculate the 1.5 times
        gross_pay += extra_hours * rate_per_hour * 1.5

    # Return the gross pay calculated
    return gross_pay


# read teh values from the user
hours = float(input('Enter the hours: '))
rate_per_hour = float(input('Enter rate per hour: '))

# calculate the gross pay from function
gross_pay = computepay(hours, rate_per_hour)

# print the gross pay
print('The gross pay is: ', gross_pay)

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