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You can use more than one if statement in your code. Here’s an example of a calculation that uses two if statements. Let’s compute the total cost of an item where the price is based on the weight of the item. If the item weighs less than 1 pound then the price is 1.45 a pound. If the item weighs 1 pound or more the price is 1.15 a pound.

The program below is an attempt to do that. But it is broken in a subtle way. For one value of weight, the price will not be set to any value, so the calculation of total will fail with an error that something is not defined. Edit the code and change the first line so that weight has a different value. Run it again and see what changes. Try it in the codelens as well to see how the different values for weight change the lines of code that are executed. Can you figure out the value of weight that will result in an error?

So how can we fix the bug? One way would be to change the second if to use >= so that there the program handles every situation correctly.

Another way we could solve the problem would be to set a price as a default, to assume that the weight is under a pound. Then, we use an if to change it only if the weight turns out to be 1 or more.

Check your understanding

weight = 0.5
numItems = 5
if weight < 2:
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 price = 1.50
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if weight >= 2:
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 price = 1.30
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total = weight * price
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print(weight)
print(price)
print(total)

if (x > 2):
    x = x * 2
if (x > 4):
    x = 0
print(x)