Python programming problem

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Hey guys! Im working on a problem and cant figure out how to answer it....
the problem is as follows.
"make a python program that calculates tip and total bill for a restaurant. Upon running the program, it asks the user:
How much is your original bill?
The program takes the original bill amount as an input to calculate tip and total bill. Tip is based on 15% of original bill. It outputs
Your tip based on 15% is   ______ (fill in tip amount here)
Your total bill is ___________ (fill in total bill here)
The program can also take the preferred tip percentage from the user and output both tip percentage, tip amount and total bill. 
"
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated
So far I have 
```python
mealAmount = float(input("How much is your original bill?"))
whatTip = float (input("What percentage would you like to tip?"))
tipAmount = mealAmount * whatTip
print("Your tip amount is "
```
but I dont know how to call my function "tipAmount" in the print function.
[edit formatting -cf]

Andreas cormack · Answer

Hi
As suggested above go over python basics course.
```python 
mealAmount = float(input("How much is your original bill?"))
whatTip = float (input("What percentage would you like to tip?"))
tipAmount = mealAmount * (whatTip/100)
print("Your tip amount is ") # here you can use the string's  format function to insert values into a string
```

Kenneth Love · Answer

If you've done Python Basics (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-basics), we've done two different ways of combining strings or inserting values into strings, so that would handle your current problem.

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