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Lesson 2 practice questions

Question 1

Create a variable that stores the value for pi.

Solution

pi=3.14

Question 2

What data type is stored in the variable pi? And why?

Solution

type(pi)

float

The variable pi has decimals, thus it is a float.

Question 3

Create a variable that stores Avogadro's number.

Solution

avogadro=6.02e23

Question 4

How do we check if Avogadro's number is greater than pi?

Solution

avogadro > pi

True

Question 5

Use the if statement to print out something if Avogadro's number is greater than pi.

Solution

if avogadro > pi:
    print("Avogadro's number is greater than pi")
else:
    print("No conclusion can be made")

Avogadro's number is greater than pi

Question 6

Create a list of five random things that you can think of and then use a for loop to print each item in the list.

Solution

town=["Curry","Thompson","Green","Igoudala","Durant"]

for player in range(0,5):
    print(town[player])

Alternative solution

for player in town:
    print(player)