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CSCI 2010 - Quiz 1-6 questions with correct answers A+
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Only one constructor may be defined per class.
- correct answer False



What is a method?
- correct answer A member of a class that defines an operation on an object.



A classed called Printer has a method called printDocument. This calls a void method in the Printer class
called printPage that takes an integer representing the page number as an argument. How should
printDocument call printPage with an argument of 4?
- correct answer printPage(4);



Given a class called Rectangle with a constructor that takes two doubles as arguments representing the
dimensions, which of the following is the correct way to invoke that constructor?
- correct answer Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(8.2, 3.5);



Consider the following code:



Employee emp1 = new Employee();

emp1.setName("Anna Karenina");

Employee emp2 = new Employee();

emp2.setName("David Copperfield"):

emp2 = emp1;



Which of the following best describes the contents of the two variables emp1 and emp2 after this code
has executed?
- correct answer emp1 refers to the object with the name Anna Karenina. emp2 refers to the same
object.

, Given the following method header:



public double computeArea(double length, double width)



Which of the following would be a legal overloaded method in the same class?
- correct answer public double computeArea(double length)



When calling a method from another method in the same class, the form methodName() is equivalent
to this.methodName().
- correct answer True



Regular methods may be overloaded, but a constructor may not be overloaded.
- correct answer False



All methods must return a value.
- correct answer False



What is the difference between a static variable and an instance variable?
- correct answer A static variable is shared by all objects of a class. Every object has its own version of an
instance variable.



What is decompostion?
- correct answer A design strategy that breaks a task down into several subtasks.



What is the difference between an accessor method (or getter) and a mutator method (or setter)?
- correct answer An accessor method returns data contained in an instance variable. A mutator method
modifies data contained in an instance variable.



Given the following header for a method in the class Demo:



public static double smallest(double[] data)