Variable assignment in Python - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to assign the value 10 to the variable x.

Python

x = [1]

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Ax

B'10'

C10

Dten

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Putting quotes around the number, which makes it a string.

Using the variable name instead of a value.

The variable x is assigned the number 10 without quotes because it is a number, not a string.

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medium

Complete the code to assign the string 'hello' to the variable greeting.

Python

greeting = [1]

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A'hello'

Bhello

C"hello"

Dgreeting

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not using quotes around the string.

Using the variable name instead of a string value.

Strings must be enclosed in quotes. Both single and double quotes work, so both options are correct.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to assign the sum of 5 and 3 to the variable total.

Python

total = 5 [1] 3

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A+

B-

C*

D/

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using subtraction or multiplication instead of addition.

Leaving out the operator.

The plus sign + adds two numbers together. Here, 5 + 3 equals 8.

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hard

Fill both blanks to assign the length of the word 'apple' to the variable length.

Python

length = [1]([2])

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Alen

Bword

C'apple'

Dlength

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a variable name that is not defined.

Not using the length function.

The len() function returns the number of characters in a string. Here, it counts the letters in 'apple'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a dictionary with keys as uppercase letters of words and values as their lengths, only for words longer than 3 letters.

Python

result = [1]: [2] for word in words if len(word) [3] 3}

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Aword.upper()

Blen(word)

C>

Dword

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the word itself as key without uppercase.

Using wrong comparison operators.

Mixing keys and values.

This dictionary comprehension creates keys by converting each word to uppercase, values as the length of the word, and includes only words longer than 3 letters.