# amber evans
# 9/3/2020
# Ex. 2-15
# this program gets an items original price and
# calculates its sale price, with a 20% discount

#get the items orginal price.
orginal_price = float (input('enter the items orginal price: '))

#calculate the amount of the discount.
discount = orginal_price * 0.2

#calculate the sale price.
sale_price = orginal_price - discount

#display the sales price.
print('the sale price is', sale_price)

input ()

