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Receipt This solution shows a receipt for a car repair service. It includes 6 different
items, each item has name and amount. The total due is shown at the bottom of the
amount
column and shows the numerical summary of the data of the column.
 Screenshot: the receipt example.
The cheaper provider After we got the receipt from the original repair service, we contacted
another provider , to review the receipt and to offer a better price. The
cheaper provider looked at the receipt and said "all the prices seems reasonable,
except the
labor trans rebuild
- I can make it for $300 instead of
$525".
The following solution uses just two formulas to add the information about
the cheaper provider.
 Screenshot: adding information about the cheaper provider.
We can also calculate how much we could save by selecting the cheaper provider. To due this we add a new column that shows
the difference in the prices between the two providers.
 Screenshot: calculating the difference in prices with just one
formula.
The source code
Following is the source code for this example. To use it in your copy of NumericBase, copy and paste it in the View Source window.
table Table1{
~name:=!
amount:=!
cheaper:=amount!
savings:=amount-cheaper!
<1>:={~name:="assembly st",amount:=175,}
<2>:={~name:="fluid", amount:=20.25,}
<3>:={~name:="torque conv", amount:=265,}
<4>:={~name:="bushing kit", amount:=67.85,}
<5>:={~name:="labor remove reinstall", amount:=331,}
<6>:={~name:="labor trans rebuild", amount:=525,cheaper:=300,}
}
optimized(14,40) result(Table1);
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Source code for the receipt example
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