Emotional baggage shipping cost

EBS is a company that ships emotional baggage. Write a program that computes the weight of someone's emotional baggage, and the cost of shipping it. The worksheet starts like this:

Start

Users fill in the customer's first name, age, and gender, and then click Run. If the data validates, the program outputs the baggage's weight (in emograms), and the shipping cost. For example:

Some output

Validate the three inputs, using the following rules:

  • A name must be entered. Case doesn't matter. jAN, Jan, JAN… all the same.
  • Age must be a number.
  • Gender must be M or F, either upper- or lowercase.

If there is an error, show an error message, and end the program. For example:

Error

Here are the rules for computing weight and cost.

  • Weight is 1.9 times age for women, and 1.4 times age for men.
  • People whose first name starts with "A" or "E" have an extra 32 emograms of emotional baggage. Nobody knows why.
  • Each emogram costs $26.30 to ship.

Hints:

You can check whether a string is empty like this:

  1. If thing = "" Then
That's two double-quotes together, with nothing between them.

You can get the first character of a string like this:

  1. Left(thing, 1)
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