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Price formatting crashes on numbers

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What it should do

format_price(amount) should return the amount formatted as a price string, e.g. format_price(5) -> "$5".

What goes wrong

Calling format_price(5) crashes with: TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str.

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This is a type errors bug

Totals that concatenate, sorts that put 10 before 9, comparisons that refuse to run.

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