HELP ME PLEASE!!!

[Jessica Curtner]

I'm doing a project for school about shipping rates i need to make a program that will ask the user to enter a weight of a package and the amount of miles they want to ship it.. the rates per 500 miles are as follows:
2lbs or less 1.10
over 2 lbs but not more than 6lbs 2.20
6lbs but not more than 10 lbs 3.70
over 10 lbs is 3.80

I am having a hard time trying to figure out what i need to put in my code to have any package being sent under 500 miles get set to the minimum shipping rate listed above or is there a different way i should be setting this up??.. can someone please explain to me what i need to do i would greatly appreciate it.. Here is what i have so far:

 * This program will calculate shipping rates for different sized packages
 */

package shippingrates;

/**
 *
 * @author Jessica
 */
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
public class ShippingRates {


    public static void main(String[] args) {
      double weight;
      double miles;
      double distance;
      double firstsec;
      double secondsec;
      double thirdsec;
      double fourthsec;

      firstsec = 1.10;
      secondsec = 2.20;
      thirdsec = 3.70;
      fourthsec = 3.80;

      //Create a DecimalFormat object
      DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#,###.00");

      //Create a Scanner object for keyboard input.
      Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

      //User input how many miles they want to ship
      System.out.println("How many miles do you want to ship");
      miles = keyboard.nextDouble();

      //User input weight of package
      System.out.println("What is the weight of the package?");
      weight = keyboard.nextDouble();


      //Calculate Distance
      distance = miles / 500;

      //display shipping rate

      if ((weight <= 2) && (distance < 500))
      System.out.println("The shipping rate is \n $" +formatter.format (firstsec * distance));
      
      else if ((weight > 2) && (weight <=6) && (distance < 500))
      System.out.println("The shipping rate is \n $" +formatter.format ( secondsec *  distance));

      else if ((weight > 6) && (weight <= 10)&&(distance < 500))
      System.out.println("The Shipping rate is \n $" +formatter.format( thirdsec * distance));

      else if ((weight > 10) && (distance < 500))
      System.out.println("The shipping Rate is \n $" +formatter.format( fourthsec * distance));
    }
}    

[Ulf Dittmer]

It seems you're using the "distance" value incorrectly. A check for "distance < 500" doesn't make sense if earlier you defined "distance = miles / 500".

But since -in the format statement- you're multiplying by the distance value anyway, you should ask yourself: How do you need to take the distance value into account in those "if" statements?

[Jesper de Jong]

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[Ulf Dittmer]

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