Question

What does this program print?

temperature = 65

while temperature < 80:
print("It's still a nice day")
if temperature < 70:
temperature = temperature + 5
elif temperature > 75:
break
else:
temperature = temperature + 3

Answer 1

This Python program prints "It's still a nice day" five times as it increments temperature in intervals of 5 and 3 until it exceeds the while loop condition of being less than 80.

Step-by-step explanation:

The program in question is written in Python and contains a loop that increases the temperature variable under certain conditions until a break condition is met.

When the program starts, temperature is set to 65. Since 65 is less than 80, the loop starts. The string "It's still a nice day" is printed, and the program checks the temperature. Since it's less than 70, the program adds 5 to the temperature, making it 70. The loop runs again - the string is printed, and this time, since the temperature is not less than 70, the else clause executes, adding 3 to the temperature to make it 73. The loop proceeds similarly until the temperature is no longer less than 80 or the break condition is reached, which does not happen in this case.

The output of the program is:

• "It's still a nice day" (temperature is 65, increases by 5 to 70)
• "It's still a nice day" (temperature is 70, increases by 3 to 73)
• "It's still a nice day" (temperature is 73, increases by 3 to 76)
• "It's still a nice day" (temperature is 76, increases by 3 to 79)
• "It's still a nice day" (temperature is 79, increases by 3 and becomes 82, but since this is after printing and the new temperature is not checked against the while condition until the next iteration, the loop ends)

Note that the elif part of the condition to check if the temperature is greater than 75 is never true; thus, the break statement is never reached in this scenario.