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Exercise

Conditional looping with lists

Before you scale your tomato and basil pasta recipe for the party, you need to inspect the ingredient quantities to understand what you're working with. Your recipe quantities are stored in a list called quantities (measured in grams). As a first step in building your recipe scaler, you'll loop through these quantities and use conditionals to categorize them - but you won't scale them yet. This helps you understand the ingredient distribution before making any changes.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Loop through each quantity in the quantities list using qty as your iterator variable.
  • Inside the loop, add a conditional that checks if the qty is greater than or equal to 400 grams. If so, print 'Large quantity'.
  • Add an elif condition to check if the qty is greater than or equal to 200 grams. If so, print 'Medium quantity'.
  • Add an else clause to handle all remaining quantities and print 'Small quantity'.