Question at position 2 What will the following code print? animal = "cat" print("The " + animal, "sat on the mat.")The cat sat on the mat.The animal sat on the mat.Thecatsat on the mat.Thecat sat on the mat.Clear my selection

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Question at position 2 What will the following code print? animal = "cat" print("The " + animal, "sat on the mat.")The cat sat on the mat.The animal sat on the mat.Thecatsat on the mat.Thecat sat on the mat.Clear my selection

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We start by parsing the code snippet and the options to determine what the print statement will output.
First, the code assigns the string "cat" to the variable animal. Then it executes print("The " + animal, "sat on the mat."). In Python 3, the + operator concatenates strings, so "The " + animal becomes "The cat". The print function is given two arguments separated by a comma: the first is the string "The cat" and the second is the string "sat on the mat.". When print receives multiple arguments, it outputs them separated by a space by default, unless a custom separator is provided.
Option 1: "The cat sat on the mat." This matches the result explained above: the two parts are joined into "The cat" and "sat on the mat." with a space inserted between them, yielding exactly "The cat sat on the mat.".
Option 2: "The animal sat on the mat." This would imply that the literal word "animal" was used in place of the variable's value. Since the code uses the variable animal, the actual text is the value inside the variable, which is "cat", not the word "animal".
Option 3: "Thecatsat on the mat." Here, there is no space between the concatenated part and the following string, and there is also a stray space issue: the two pieces are not joined without a space, and the second string would still have its leading space if any. This option ignores the behavior of the print function adding a separator between arguments, and also incorrectly combines the strings.
Option 4: "Thecat sat on the mat." This option lacks the space between "The" and "cat" because it treats the concatenation as producing "Thecat" without inserting the space that was present in the literal "The ". The original code includes a trailing space after The, so the concatenated result should include that space between The and cat.
In summary, the behavior of string concatenation with the subsequent print call, along with how print handles multiple arguments, leads to the output described in option 1 being the accurate reflection of the code's behavior, while the other options misrepresent how the variables, spaces, and print separators interact.

Question at position 2 What will the following code print? animal = "cat" print("The " + animal, "sat on the mat.")The cat sat on the mat.The animal sat on the mat.Thecatsat on the mat.Thecat sat on the mat.Clear my selection

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