do you guys help newbies??

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "malik" == malik m <malik_martin at hotmail.com> writes:

    malik> hi yea i messed up here's the code sorry about the html too
    malik> i was using it through hotmail while i learnd and still am
    malik> learning how to use newsgroups....

One more thing to watch out for.  When you posted your code, the lines
were automatically wrapped, making your code unrunnable without
editing.

Now, onto the problem!

You need to convert the raw input to a numeric type, as in 

  md = int(raw_input("Miles driven: "))

raw_input comes back as a string.

John Hunter