WGU - Scripting and Programming Foundations - D278
Questions with verified answers
A car drove 200 miles using 10 gallons of fuel.
Which operation should be used to compute the miles per gallon, which is 20?
Ans✓✓✓-Division
A function calculates the weight difference (Diff) given two sample weights (S1
and S2).
What should be the output from the function? Ans✓✓✓-Diff
A function MyFct has an input x and an output z.
What does MyFct return? Ans✓✓✓-z only
A function returns a number x cubed. For example, if x is 3, the function returns 3
* 3 * 3, or 27.
What should be the input to the function? Ans✓✓✓-x
A function should convert hours and minutes to seconds, such as converting 1
hour and 10 minutes to 4,200 seconds.
What should be the input to the function? Ans✓✓✓-Hours and minutes
, A language substantially supports a programmer creating items like person,
teacher, and students. Each item has internal data and some operations.
Which characteristic describes that language? Ans✓✓✓-Object-oriented
A language uses tags around text to indicate how that text should be formatted.
Which characteristic describes a language having such tags? Ans✓✓✓-Markup
A program determines if a user's age is high enough to run for U.S. president. The
minimum age requirement is 35.
How should the item that holds the minimum age be declared? Ans✓✓✓-
Constant integer minAge
A program should continue accepting input numbers, adding each to a sum, until
a 0 is input.
Which control structure should be used? Ans✓✓✓-While loop
A program uses the number of seconds in a minute in various calculations.
How should the item that holds the number of seconds in a minute be declared?
Ans✓✓✓-Constant integer secondsPerMinute
Questions with verified answers
A car drove 200 miles using 10 gallons of fuel.
Which operation should be used to compute the miles per gallon, which is 20?
Ans✓✓✓-Division
A function calculates the weight difference (Diff) given two sample weights (S1
and S2).
What should be the output from the function? Ans✓✓✓-Diff
A function MyFct has an input x and an output z.
What does MyFct return? Ans✓✓✓-z only
A function returns a number x cubed. For example, if x is 3, the function returns 3
* 3 * 3, or 27.
What should be the input to the function? Ans✓✓✓-x
A function should convert hours and minutes to seconds, such as converting 1
hour and 10 minutes to 4,200 seconds.
What should be the input to the function? Ans✓✓✓-Hours and minutes
, A language substantially supports a programmer creating items like person,
teacher, and students. Each item has internal data and some operations.
Which characteristic describes that language? Ans✓✓✓-Object-oriented
A language uses tags around text to indicate how that text should be formatted.
Which characteristic describes a language having such tags? Ans✓✓✓-Markup
A program determines if a user's age is high enough to run for U.S. president. The
minimum age requirement is 35.
How should the item that holds the minimum age be declared? Ans✓✓✓-
Constant integer minAge
A program should continue accepting input numbers, adding each to a sum, until
a 0 is input.
Which control structure should be used? Ans✓✓✓-While loop
A program uses the number of seconds in a minute in various calculations.
How should the item that holds the number of seconds in a minute be declared?
Ans✓✓✓-Constant integer secondsPerMinute
