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What is the function or purpose of Operator precedence?

Difficulty: Medium

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This Medium Programming Concepts question asks: What is the function or purpose of Operator precedence? The correct choice is A. The set of rules that determines the order in which operators are evaluated in an expression.. Read the options below, commit to one, then use the explanation to see why that choice holds and why the others do not.

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Correct answer

A. The set of rules that determines the order in which operators are evaluated in an expression.

Explanation

The set of rules that determines the order in which operators are evaluated in an expression is the value that answers What is the function or purpose of Operator precedence option A Option B A software design technique that breaks a program into separate interchangeable modules does not fit this question Option C A data type used to represent a sequence of characters such as text does not fit this question Option D A type system where variable types are checked at runtime rather than at compile time does not fit this question For this Programming Concepts question the accepted answer is The set of rules that determines the order.

Source: Programming Concepts Official Reference Guide

Tags: computer science, programming, coding basics, software development

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