Final answer:
The incorrect statement about Java is that the arithmetic operations '*', '/', '%', '+' and '-' have the same level of precedence, as '*', '/', and '%' actually have higher precedence than '+' and '-'.
Step-by-step explanation:
Among the statements related to Java, the incorrect description is (b) The arithmetic operations *, /, %, + and - have the same level of precedence. In Java, the arithmetic operators do not all have the same level of precedence. The operators * (multiplication), / (division), and % (modulus) have higher precedence than the operators + (addition) and - (subtraction). Therefore, multiplication, division, and modulus operations will be performed before addition and subtraction in the absence of parentheses to alter the order.
The rest of the descriptions given are accurate:
- (a) The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) does indeed translate byte code into its own system's machine language and then runs the resulting machine code.
- (c) Comments in Java are ignored by the JVM, meaning they do not cause any actions to be performed during program execution.
- (d) All variables in Java must indeed be given a type when they are declared, which is part of Java's statically-typed nature.
- (e) Variable names in Java are case-sensitive, which means that variables named 'Data' and 'data' would be considered distinct.