Given the Following Code Segment, What Is the Output

question 2

Multiple Choice

Given the following code segment, what is the output?
int x = 1, y = 1, z = 1;
y = y + z;
x = x + y;
cout << "result = " << (x < y ? y : x) << endl;

• A) result = 0
• B) result = 1
• C) result = 2
• D) result = 3
• E) there will be no output

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