Calculating key metrics
As a developer for a food delivery platform, you might need to calculate important metrics for your business. You have access to recent_orders, a list containing order amounts from the past hour during peak traffic.
While you can manually calculate metrics, Python's built-in functions provide efficient and faster solutions.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Python for Developers
Exercise instructions
- Find the smallest order amount, saving as
smallest_order. - Find the largest order amount, saving as
largest_order. - Calculate the total revenue, saving as
total_revenue.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
recent_orders = [15.99, 28.50, 42.75, 18.99, 55.00, 31.25, 22.99, 67.50]
# Find the smallest order amount
smallest_order = ____(recent_orders)
# Find the largest order amount
largest_order = ____(recent_orders)
# Calculate total revenue from all orders
total_revenue = ____(recent_orders)
print("Smallest order:", smallest_order)
print("Largest order:", largest_order)
print("Total revenue:", total_revenue)