Acrobat Form - Alert if not 100%?

I have a form where people are supposed to list how they want to split their investment. For example...
Stocks - 60%
Bonds - 30%
Cash - 10%
The problem is that we need the total to always equal 100% - and we often receive forms that do not total 100%.
Is there a way to make it so people cannot submit the form unless the total of the fields equals 100%? (ideally with a visible error message)
* I'm still new to Acrobat, so I'm not sure what is possible or not.
If you could point me in the right direction (assuming it's possible), I would sure appreciate it!

It is possible to set up a script that runs when the document is printed, but there is no way to stop the print job from taking place if things don't check out. Still, you could alert the user that there are errors. There are at least two alternatives that may work for you:
1. Set up a button on the form, labelled something like "Validate Form". When the user clicks the button, a script can run that checks the fields and pops up an alter that tells the user what's wrong, if anything. It can then also issue a print command if everything is OK.
2. In a script that runs when the document is printed, run a similar script that checks the fields and alerts the user, but additionally set all of the forms fields to not print. So the user prints a blank form. A waste of paper, but at least you're not getting sent invalid data.
Do either of these sound reasonable? If so, do you have any other fields you want to validate, or just the three?

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