Chapter 6 Quiz

[skochan]

A 10-question quiz on Chapter 6.

Chapter 6 Quiz

Cheers,

Steve Kochan

[macifone]

In this question:
The statement

if ( x < 10 && x > 50)
   y = 100;
else
   y = 50;

I put y would be either depending on the value of x.
Why is that wrong?

[toby]

Because no value can be less than 10 and greater than 50 at the same time, this condition demands that x is less than 10 and it is also greater than 50 in order to be true and because that is impossible it will always be false. So in this case y will always be set to 50. If the question was:

if ( x < 10 || x > 50)
   y = 100;
else
   y = 50;

then your answer would have been correct. Remember && demands that the condition each side of it both must evaluate to true for the overall expression to be true, || demands that one of the conditions on either side is true for the overall expression to be true.

[xjames]

Hi there. you have the following quiz question:

If x and y are integers, the statement

if ( x = 5 )
    y = 0;
else
   y = 1;
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with the options being 0, 1, or invalid

I think this if statement is invalid, cause you need == to make it an equality comparison, and not an assignment,
but the quiz marks it as "wrong answer".
Am I thinking about this wrong?

EDIT: Nevermind. Reading the other threads I understand the trickiness of the question Another reminder to think like the computer executing the code would "think"

Also

I loved the question

    int x = 100, y;
   
    y = (x % 2) ? 50 : 0;

It reminded me to think hard about understanding the syntax before spending 10 minutes puzzling over "what's going on here"