Question

I am using Python 3.2 Just so you know what I am doing, here is the assignment:
~The function random.randint from the random module can be used to produce an integer from a range of values. For example, random.randint(1,6) produces the values 1 to 6 with equal probability. A simple tutoring program may randomly select two numbers between 0 and 12 and ask a question such as the following: What is 6 times 8? Upon receiving user response, the computer checks to see if the answer is correct and gives encouraging remarks. Write a program that will loop 10 times producing questions of this form and gives a score for the user at the end.

Here is what I have in my program:

    print ("Hello. Let's begin")
    for i in range (1,10):
        from random import randint
        x=randint (0,12)
        y=randint (0,12)
        print (x,"*" y,"=?")
        product= int(input ("What is the product?")
        if (product==x*y):
           print ("Awesome! That is correct!")
        else:
           print ("Sorry, that is not correct, but let's try another one!")

I have everything working with all of this. It asks the user a random multiplication question and responds ten times. What I do not understand how to do is to give the user a score at the end. I’m brainstorming ideas and not much is really working. I think I would have to do something like:

    score=

But I don’t know how to tell the program to calculate the number of correct answers… Do I say score=number of if?

And then when I print the score I can just say:

    if (score>5) :
       print: ("Great job! You scored a",score,"out of ten!")
    else:
       print: ("Not the best score, but you can try again! You scored a",score,"out of ten.")

Or is there maybe an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

First, set score to 0

score = 0

then in the loop, try something like

    if (product==x*y):
       print ("Awesome! That is correct!")
       score += 1
    else:
       print ("Sorry, that is not correct, but let's try another one!")

the important part being the score += 1 this increases the score by one when you get a correct answer. You can the put your score > 5 in after the loop.