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This statement will pause the screen, until the [Enter] key is pressed.

A) cin;
B) cin.getline();
C) ();
D) ();
E) ();

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Final answer:

None of the options provided, A) Cin; B) cin.getline(); C) (); D) (); E) (); correctly represent a command that would solely pause the execution waiting for the [Enter] key. Typically, to pause a C++ program, cin.ignore() or getchar() are used. Option B) cin.getline() is the closest, but not exactly correct without additional arguments.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question you're asking relates to a command that will pause the execution of a program until the user presses the [Enter] key. In the context of C++ programming, when you want to pause the execution of a program, you can use different commands depending on how you want to capture the input. Option A) cin; waits for an input but it specifically waits for a valid input that matches the expected data type and will skip over whitespace characters such as spaces and newlines. This isn't typically used to simply pause the execution since it will not stop at a newline character. Option B) cin.getline(); can be used to read a line of text, including whitespace, from the input stream and can be used to pause the program until the user presses the [Enter] key, typically after an empty string is provided as the argument. However, without any arguments, as shown in the options, it is not syntactically correct. Option C, D, and E are all represented simply as () which is not a valid command or function in C++ by itself.

In summary, none of the options provided correctly represent a command that would solely pause the execution of a program waiting for an [Enter] key press. A typical way to achieve this in C++ is to use Cin. Ignore (numeric limits<streamsizemax (), '\\') after a previous Cin statement or get char () in C.

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