When Using Equals and Not Equals for Comparisons with Objects

question 47

Multiple Choice

When using equals and not equals for comparisons with objects, you compare the objects' ____ instead of actual values.

• A) reference fields
• B) primitive data types
• C) Boolean values
• D) memory addresses

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Definitions:

Legal Duty

An obligation imposed by law where an individual is required to adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could harm others.

Superseding Cause

refers to an unforeseeable event that interrupts the chain of causation and becomes the primary reason for an injury, thereby relieving the defendant from liability in a negligence claim.

Causal Chain

A sequence of events where each event is the result of the preceding one and causes the next.

Unforeseeable Event

An event that cannot be anticipated or predicted with reasonable accuracy.