Finding maximum value in a loop

Question

This is just an introductory class code, and i'm wondering how to find the max of all the next_value variable and compare it to the first_value to print the maximum. My if statement is close but I'm not sure how to fix it

maximum = 0.0
value = int(input("Enter the number of values to process: "))

first_value = float(input("First value: "))
next_value_total = 0


for i in range(1, value):
    next_value = float(input("Next value: "))
    next_value_total += next_value
    if first_value <= next_value:
        maximum = next_value
    elif first_value > next_value:
        maximum = first_value

total = next_value_total + first_value
print("The total is {:.1f}".format(total))
print("The maximum is {:.1f}".format(maximum))

Solution

I will try to keep my answer as clean and simple as possible:

value = int(input("Enter the number of values to process: "))

first_value = float(input("First value: "))

total = first_value
maximum = first_value

for i in range(1, value):
    next_value = float(input("Next value: "))
    total += next_value
    if maximum <= next_value:
        maximum = next_value

print("The total is {:.1f}".format(total))
print("The maximum is {:.1f}".format(maximum))