Proficiency Exam

COMP1010 Introduction to Programming Sep. 29, 2021

Issued: 04:00 PM – Due: 5:50 PM

Exam Submission Instructions:

• You should follow “Proficiency Exam Setup” before starting the exam. Students who do
not meet the setup requirements will not be able to receive results.
• There are 3 Problems for a total of 100 points. Each problem may contain several ques-
tions.
• Your program should work correctly on all inputs. If there are any specifications about
how the program should be written (or how the output should appear), those specifications
should be followed.
• Your code and functions/modules should be appropriately commented. However, try to
avoid making your code overly busy (e.g., include a comment on every line).
• Variables and functions should have meaningful names, and code should be organized
into functions/methods where appropriate.
• Academic honesty is required in all work you submit to be graded. You should NOT copy
or share your code with other students to avoid plagiarism issues.
• This is closed-book exam, and no Internet access is allowed (except for Canvas sub-
mission). Use, e.g, help(print) to check the built-in function usage if necessary.
Drafting paper and pen/pencil are allowed. DO NOT USE any web-based drafting/-
drawing tools during the exam.
• You can use all the built-in functions, package, knowledge you know to solve these prob-
lems (must be in Python).
• You should upload your .py file(s) to the Canvas before the end of the exam session
(5.50PM, Sep. 29, 2021). Submit .py file with the following naming format: YourStu-
dentID_ProExam_Q1.py, for example: V202000999_ProExam_Q1.py. Note: If you are
working on Jupiter Notebook, you need to download/convert it to Python .py file for sub-
mission.

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Problem 1 (30-pts)

(a) Flat Tax: (10-pts) A flat tax (short for flat-rate tax) is a tax system where the tax payment
is calculated as fixed percentage of income. For example, with a tax rate of 20%, if income
is $10,000 then the tax due is 20% x $10,000 = $2,000 and if income is $55,000 then tax
due is $11,000. (Source: Wikipedia)

Write a program that prompt user for his or her income, a flat tax rate (a number between
1-100), and print out the tax due amount as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Example test case for Part (a).

(b) Progessive Tax: (20-pts) A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the
taxable amount increases. The term progressive refers to the way the tax rate progresses
from low to high, with the result that a taxpayer’s average tax rate is less than the person’s
marginal tax rate (Source Wikipedia).

A simplified Viet Nam tax Brackets is shown in Figure 2. An example of the tax amount
due for an income of $10,000 is calculated as below:

5/100 ∗ 2, 500 + 10/100 ∗ (5, 000 − 2, 500) + 18/100 ∗ (10, 000 − 5, 000) = 1, 275

Hence, the effective (average) tax rate is 1, 275/10, 000 = 12, 75%

Figure 2: Simplified Viet Nam tax brackets in 2019.

Write a program that prompt user for his or her annual income and

(i) (10-pts) Print out the amount tax due (write a function, name it as progressive_tax()
with one input is income amount, and output is tax due amount).
(ii) (10-pts) Print out the effective tax rate.

Note: The print out number need to be formatted exactly as appeared in the examples,
otherwise up to 5-points will be deducted.

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 Figure 3: Example test case for Part (b).

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Problem 2 (40-pts)

(a) (20-pts) Prompt user for an integer greater than or equal to 2, repeat if the input value
is less than 2. Next, using the for-loop to print out all the possible pairs of two positive
integers whose sum are equal to this number. (See example output).

(b) (20-pts) [Hard] Using the recursion method to print out all possible sets of multiple posi-
tive integers whose sum are equal to this number.
Hint: Loop through all possible pairs of two numbers whose sum equals n, and recursion
on the first (or second) term while keeping track of the current sum state in a string.

Note that you should follow the printout format, but the order does not matter (also, it is also
okay to print out more than needed but not less (for example, 5=1+4+ is acceptable). Please
use a single Python file for this problem.

Figure 4: Example A for Problem 2.

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 Figure 5: Example B for Problem 2.

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Problem 3 (30-pts)

VinUniversity plans to establish a new research center in 2022. It is interested in building an au-
tomatic system for calculating weekly pay based on the employee’s level and number of hours
worked. Specifically, undergraduates students earn $15/hour. Postdoctoral researchers and
staffs earn $25/hour and $35/hour, respectively. Note that undergraduates students cannot be
paid for more than 20 hours in one week. Thus, if they have worked more than 20 hours in a
week, then they will only be paid for the first 20 hours. Postdoctoral researchers and staff have
no limit on the number of hours that they can be paid for.

Create the function called “vinuniPayment” that calculates and returns the total pay. It has
two parameters: level and hours, in which level is a string representing the classification level
of each research center member (ugrad is undergraduate, post is postdoctoral researcher, and
staff is staff member); and hours is a float representing the number of hours worked.

Once the function has been created, call the following scripts:

vinuniPayment(‘ugrad’, 24.0)
vinuniPayment(‘staff’, 35.5)
vinuniPayment(‘post’, 10.5)

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