Question

Consider the following if statement, where doesSignificantWork​, ​makesBreakthrough​, and nobelPrizeCandidate​ are all boolean variables:

if doesSignificantWork : if makesBreakthrough :

nobelPrizeCandidate = True else

nobelPrizeCandidate = False elif not doesSignificantWork:

nobelPrizeCandidate = False

(assume that ​doesSignificantWork and ​makesBreakthrough ​have been initialized, there is no error)

First, write a simpler ​if statement that is equivalent to this one. Then write a single assignment statement that does the same thing.

(Hint: Try to trace this piece of code with all possible initial values for makesBreakthrough and ​doesSignificantWork​. It helps you to understand the code and then you can simplify it and rewrite it).

CODE FOR PYTHON

Answer 1

The answer to this question is as follows:

doesSignificantWork=True
#initaializing the variables to check the if statements
makesBreakthrough=False
if doesSignificantWork : #doesSignificantWork is true then
if makesBreakthrough :#makesBreakthrough is true then
nobelPrizeCandidate = True#nobelPrizeCandidate is true
else:#otherwise
nobelPrizeCandidate = False#nobelPrizeCandidate is false
elif not doesSignificantWork:
nobelPrizeCandidate = False
print(nobelPrizeCandidate)