CSCI 107 Assignment 5
- Due Date: Friday, October 14th no later than 11:59 p.m.
- Partner Information: You may complete this assignment individually or
with exactly one classmate.
- Submission Instructions (working alone): Upload your solution,
entitled YourFirstName-YourLastName-Assignment5.py
to the BrightSpace Assignment 5 Dropbox.
- Submission Instructions (working with exactly one classmate): Upload your solution, entitled
YourFirstName-YourLastName-PartnerFirstName-PartnerLastName-Assignment5.py
to the BrightSpace Assignment 5 Dropbox. Note: If you work with a
partner, only one person should submit a solution. If you both
submit a solution, the submission that will be graded is the one from
the partner whose last name comes alphabetically first.
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assignment, submit whatever you have before the deadline so that
partial credit can be earned.
Learning Outcomes
- Gain experience writing a Python function.
- Gain experience writing Python selection statements.
Assignment
- Download tax.py and rename
it according to the instructions above.
- Modify the program by adding the missing function. The
missing function will use Python selection statements
to calculate the amount of tax that a single (unmarried)
taxpayer owes using the table below. If the missing function
is implemented correctly, this output
will appear.
Note: the federal tax is progressive. For example, if a person has
a taxable income of $15,000, the first $9,950 is taxed at a rate of 10% and
the remaining $5,050 is taxed at a rate of 12%.
| Single Filer Rate |
Taxable Income Bracket |
| 10% |
$0 - $9,950 |
| 12% |
$9,951 - $40,525 |
| 22% |
$40,526 - $86,375 |
| 24% |
$86,376 - $164,925 |
| 32% |
$164,926 - $209,425 |
| 35% |
$209,426 - $523,600 |
| 37% |
$523,601 or more |
Grading - 100 points
- 49 points - Your program calculates the income tax for each
of seven test cases
correctly (7 points each). Note: these
test cases will be different than the ones in the provided code,
so make sure that your solution is a general one.
- 30 points - A function with the correct name (10 points), correct
parameters (10 points) and correct return value (10 points) is
used in the solution.
- 10 points - An appropriate function comment appears above the
function that you write.
- 11 points - The output format of the output transcript is
matched exactly.