Question at position 4 Consider the code fragment below. It has a missing piece of code indicated by XXX. Complete the print statement to output: The score is 10 out of 20 score = 10 total = 20 print( XXX )
"The score is" + str(score) + "out of" + str(total)"The score is " + score, "out of", str(total)"The score is", score, "out of", total"The score is ", score, " out of ", + totalClear my selection

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Question at position 4 Consider the code fragment below. It has a missing piece of code indicated by XXX. Complete the print statement to output: The score is 10 out of 20 score = 10 total = 20 print( XXX )
"The score is" + str(score) + "out of" + str(total)"The score is " + score, "out of", str(total)"The score is", score, "out of", total"The score is ", score, " out of ", + totalClear my selection

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To determine how to complete the print statement, I will evaluate each option and explain what it would print or if it would cause an error.
Option 1: "The score is" + str(score) + "out of" + str(total)
This option uses string concatenation to build the entire message. Because all parts are converted to strings, the result would be a single string like "The score is10out of20" with no spaces between the words and numbers. Since the required output includes spaces between words and numbers, this does not produce the exact expected text.
Option 2: "The score is " + score, "out of", str(total)
Here, the first argument to print would be the result of concatenating a string with an int ("The score is " + score), which is invalid in Python and would raise a TypeError. Even if this were fixed, mixing concatenation with separate arguments would still require careful spacing to match the exact output, making this option flawed as written.
Option 3: "The score is", score, "out of", total
This uses print with multiple arguments. In Python, print(item1, item2, item3, item4) prints each item separated by a space. The four items are the string "The score is", the integer score, the string "out of", and the integer total. The resulting output would be: The score is 10 out of 20, which matches the required text exactly, including the spaces between components.
Option 4: "The score is ", score, " out of ", + total
This is also a print-with-multiple-args pattern, but the trailing "+ total" is a bit unusual. The expression + total is a unary plus applied to the integer total, which evaluates to 20. So the arguments become: "The score is ", 10, " out of ", 20. The printed result would be: The score is  10 out of  20, which has an extra space because the first string ends with a space and the print adds spaces between all arguments. Depending on how the spaces are counted, this may not match the exact required formatting (there would be an extra space between "The score is" and 10, and similarly before 20). Therefore this option does not produce the exact expected string.
In summary, option 3 correctly formats the print statement to yield: The score is 10 out of 20, using four arguments to print so that spaces are placed naturally between components, whereas the other options either remove necessary spaces, cause a type error, or introduce awkward spacing. Thus, option 3 is the most accurate choice for achieving the required output.

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