Chapter 6, Problem 2DE

Can you find the reason that the following pseudocode function does not return the value indicated in the comments?

// The calcDiscountPrice function accepts an item's price and

// the discount percentage as arguments. It uses those

// values to calculate and return the discounted price.

Function Real calcDiscountPrice(Real price, Real percentage)

  // Calculate the discount.

  Declare Real discount = price * percentage

  // Subtract the discount from the price.

  Declare Real discountPrice = price - discount

  // Return the discount price.

  Return discount

End Function