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What is displayed when the following code executes? score $=40$ if (score > 95) Console.Writeline("Congratulations!"); Console.WriteLine("That's a high score!"); Console.WriteLine("This is a test question!"); a. This is a test question! b. Congratulations! That's a high score! This is a test question! c. That's a high score! This is a test question! d. Congratulations! That's a high score! e. none of the above

What is displayed when the following code executes?
score $=40$
if (score > 95) Console.Writeline("Congratulations!"); Console.WriteLine("That's a high score!"); Console.WriteLine("This is a test question!");
a. This is a test question!
b. Congratulations!
That's a high score!
This is a test question!
c. That's a high score!
This is a test question!
d. Congratulations!
That's a high score!
e. none of the above

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Key Concepts

Code Block and Statement Scope

Code block and statement scope refer to how multiple lines of code are grouped together to be executed as a single unit. In many programming languages, such as C#, an if statement without braces {} applies only to the immediately following statement. This concept is crucial to understanding how a sequence of instructions will execute under conditional logic.

Conditional Statements

Conditional statements are programming constructs that execute a block of code or a single statement only if a specified condition is true. They are fundamental for creating decision-making logic within a program, allowing different outcomes based on varying inputs or states.

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00:02 Okay, this time they ask us what is displayed when a given code executes.

00:08 Well, what's the first thing they do? they set score equal to 40.

00:12 I assume they created and are declared it as an integral type at some point or just some numeric type.

00:20 Okay, that's what we're going to assume.

00:24 And then they say if score is greater than 90, 95.

00:32 Okay, but that's false because it's equal to 40.

00:34 So it's not going to run, it's not going to run a route code.

00:38 Well, normally we write a squiggly line, right? so a squiggly line here and a closing bracket to say, oh, this is a block of code for the conditional.

00:49 But they've omitted all this year.

00:51 So all they did was write their next line of code, and then their next line of code, and the next line of code.

00:57 So what happens in this case? well, the f statement and the compiler will automatically fill in.

01:02 Okay, since they didn't tell us, they must only care about the next line or the next statement and nothing else.

01:07 So it will auto fill brackets for you right here.

01:11 So the code block is only the next statement.

01:14 So it's only not going to do the next line, and it will do the other lines.

01:17 So it's going to print out, let's see, console right line, that's a high score...

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