Question

Write code that sets the value of a variable named delicious to True if jellybeans is greater than 20, or licorice is greater than 30, or their sum is greater than 40. Otherwise, set it to False. Do NOT use an if statement in your solution. Assume jellybeans and licorice already have values.

Answer 1

Answer:

jellybeans = 10

licorice = 35

delicious = (jellybeans > 20) or (licorice > 30) or ((jellybeans + licorice) > 40)

print(delicious)

Explanation:

*The code is in Python.

Set the jellybeans and licorice to any values you like

In order to have the value of True or False without using the if statement, we need to set delicious as boolean variable. As you may know, boolean variables are the variables that have a value of either True or False

Check if jellybeans is greater than 20 or not → (jellybeans > 20)

Check if licorice is greater than 30 or not → (licorice > 30)

Check if their sum is greater than 40 or not → ((jellybeans + licorice) > 40)

All of the above expressions are boolean expressions. They return True if the statement is correct. Otherwise, they return False

Also, note that we combined all the expressions with or

For these values → jellybeans = 10, licorice = 35:

The first statement returns False

The second statement returns True

The third statement returns True

delicious = False or True or True → True

Note that if the expressions are combined with or, the result will be True if one of the expression is True.