[Python] Rounding to two decimal places and converting percentages in tip calculator

These are the parameters of the project:

• If the bill was $150.00, split between 5 people, with 12% tip.
• Each person should pay (150.00 / 5) * 1.12 = 33.6
• Format the result to 2 decimal places = 33.60

bill = input("What is the total bill?")

# bill is 150.00

tip = input("What percentage tip would you like to give? 10, 12, or 15?")

# tip will be 12%

max_tip = float(tip) / 100

# split between 5 people
people = input("How many people to split the bill?")

max_split = int(bill) / int(people)
max_cost = int(max_split) * float(max_tip)

print(f"Each person should pay:{max_cost}")


This is my current output:

What is the total bill?150
What percentage tip would you like to give? 10, 12, or 15?12
How many people to split the bill?5
Each person should pay:3.5999999999999996


I know from earlier lessons you can round(number, 2) and that should signify to python to round two places past the decimal.

float(max_tip, 2) was the only place that made sense to me, but then my output was:

line 77, in <module>
max_cost = int(max_split) * float(max_tip, 2)
TypeError: float expected at most 1 argument, got 2

Process finished with exit code 1


How can I round up two places past the decimal?

Also, how do I turn 12% into 1.12?

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