Question 1

Consider a mail-order business in which customers get a discount based on the quantity they order. In writing a program to compute the discount based on a customer's order quantity, why is it not a good idea to construct an array with as many elements as a customer might want to order, and store the appropriate discount associated with each number?

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Question 2

How do you reference the elements in an array?

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Question 3

What happens when a beginning programmer forgets that array subscripts start with 0?

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Question 4

Match between columns
                        Premises: In this type of array, each element in one array is associated with the element in the same relative position in the other array

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Question 5

Match between columns
                        Premises: A particularly convenient tool when working with arrays because you frequently need to process every element of an array

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Question 6

Describe an array and provide an example of a real-life equivalent to an array.

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Question 7

Why is it important to learn to use arrays properly?

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Question 8

What is an advantage of using an array to match a value in a range of values?

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Question 9

How can constants be used when working with arrays?

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Question 10

Match between columns
                        Premises: A subscript that is within the range of acceptable subscripts

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Question 11

What happens if a subscript value is negative or higher than the highest allowed subscript?

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Question 12

What are the steps to verify that an item number exists in an array? Provide an example.

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Question 13

Match between columns
                        Premises: Starts searching through a list from one end to the other

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Question 14

Match between columns
                        Premises: Starts looking in the middle of a sorted list, and then determines whether it should continue higher or lower

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Question 15

Match between columns
                        Premises: A variable that you set to indicate whether some event has occurred

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Question 16

Match between columns
                        Premises: Can hold the size of an array

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Question 17

Match between columns
                        Premises: Providing array values

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Question 18

Match between columns
                        Premises: Each separate item in an array

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Question 19

Match between columns
                        Premises: A series of values in computer memory

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Question 20

Why is it desirable to leave the loop as soon as a match is found?

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Quiz 6: Arrays

How do you reference the elements in an array?

What happens when a beginning programmer forgets that array subscripts start with 0?

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Describe an array and provide an example of a real-life equivalent to an array.

Why is it important to learn to use arrays properly?

What is an advantage of using an array to match a value in a range of values?

How can constants be used when working with arrays?

Match each term with a statement below.

What happens if a subscript value is negative or higher than the highest allowed subscript?

What are the steps to verify that an item number exists in an array? Provide an example.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Match each term with a statement below.

Why is it desirable to leave the loop as soon as a match is found?