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    <p>I am a beginner programmer and I am working on an assignment that requires me to do nested loops as part of a finance operation. I have written most of the code and the numbers work according (such as interest and such), however the issue arises when I try print out the savings summary for the years given.</p> <pre><code>import math def main(): #This will be hardcoded values for the years running, savings amount and annual interest and calculate the monthly interest rate savingsAmount = 500 annualInterest = 0.12 yearsRunning = 2 monthlyInterest = annualInterest / 12 #This will state the accumulator variables for totals of investment balance (month), savings (YTD), and interest earned (YTD) totalInvestBal = 0 totalSavings = 500 totalInterest = 0 #This will begin the accumulator loop process for i in range (1, yearsRunning + 1): print "Savings Schedule for Year", i,":" print "Month Interest Amount Balance" for i in range (1, 13): totalInterest = monthlyInterest * totalInvestBal totalInvestBal = totalSavings + totalInterest + totalInvestBal totalSavings = totalSavings print i, round(totalInterest,2), round(totalSavings,2), round(totalInvestBal,2) print #i becomes 12 here so we need another answer. print "Savings summary for year", (need a new way of saying the year here),":" print "Total amount saved:", totalSavings print "Total interest earned:", totalInterest print "End of year balance:", totalInvestBal main() </code></pre> <p>Since the "i" loop index variable is updated to 12, I can place that as the year. I am working from year 1 up and I need the savings summary to be from year 1 and up as well. How would that be fixed?</p>
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