AstepI Quiz 1

An assignment statement is a type of processing statement that:

• Checks for equality between a variable and a value

• Calculates value on right hand of = and stores it in variable on left

• Assigns the variable to the number of memory bytes required

• Creates a new variable each time

If we want to get the number of bundles of 5 that can be made from 1377 sticks, we would use the / operator.

• True

• False

For the CPU to know what to do next, Python code instructions have to be interpreted and converted to

• Compiler language

• Assembly language

• Binary machine code

• None of these

The diamond block in flow charts are used for conditional statements

• True

• False

Input and output steps in flowcharts are:

• represented by square and oval respectively

• represented the same by parallelograms

• not to be represented in flowcharts ever

• different and represented by arrows

% operator is used to find the remainder after subtraction

• True

• False

If a = 2 and b = 3, then a * * b gives the value of

• 6

• 9

• 8

• 23

If I want to check whether two variables, price_tomato and price_potato are equal, I would use:

• price_tomato = price_potato

• price_potato = ? and price_tomato = ?

• can never be the same - have you been to the market lately!!

• price_tomato == price_potato

(True or False) gives the answer:

• True

• False

(False and True) gives the answer

• True

• False