Critical Thinking Questions Case 6-2

question 94

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions
Case 6-2
Robin thinks that she has a good handle on the use of compound operators but she wants to do a couple of sample problems just to make certain. In both of the problems below, Robin assumes that intResult = 24.
-When Robin correctly calculates intResult -= 3,what value does she get?

• A) 18
• B) 21
• C) 72
• D) None of the above

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