Question

Which statement below returns 'soccer'?

a) sports = {2:'football', 3:'soccer', 4:'volleyball', 5:'softball'}
b) sports[3]
c) sports(3)

Answer 1

The correct statement to return 'soccer' from the sports dictionary is sports[3], which accesses the value using the key 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement that returns 'soccer' from the given dictionary is sports[3]. In Python, dictionaries are collections of key-value pairs, and you can access the value associated with a key using square brackets.

Here is how it works:

sports = {2:'football', 3:'soccer', 4:'volleyball', 5:'softball'}

To get 'soccer', use the key that corresponds to it, which in this case is 3. So, sports[3] will give you 'soccer'.

The incorrect option sports(3) attempts to call sports as if it were a function, not a dictionary.