Practice Assignment Operators (3.3) - Operators and Expressions

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Question 1.
What will be the value of x after x = 5 and then x += 3?
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Think of what `+=` does!
Question 2.
If y starts at 10 and we do y -= 4, what is y now?
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Subtract 4 from the starting value.
3Question 3.
What does the statement x = 8 do?
- Assigns 8 to x
- Assigns x to 8
- Prints 8
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Think about what assignment means.
4Question 4.
Is y += 5 equivalent to y = y + 5?
- True
- False
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Consider how the `+=` operator works.
Question 5.
If you started with a variable b = 50 and used both addition and multiplication assignment operators to reach the value of 101, what steps would you take?
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Think of adding a number to 50, then scaling it up.
Question 6.
Create a Python code that uses assignment operators to organize a shopping budget, starting from a total of $100, making repetitive purchases of $10 each until a specified total of $30 (i.e., $100 - $30).
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Consider how many purchases you can make.

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