Consider the following code segment:
s1 = "CAT"s2 = "cat"Which of the following if statements has a condition that
evaluates to True?

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The prompt provides a code snippet and a set of answer options, but the options section is empty, so we must work with what is given and note the missing information as part of the analysis.
First, consider the code: s1 = "CAT" and s2 = "cat". In Python, string comparison is lexicographic based on Unicode code points. The character 'C' has a smaller code point than 'c' (uppercase letters come before lowercase letters in Unicode). Therefore, the comparison s1 < s2 would evaluate to True, because "CAT" is lexicographically less than "cat".
Now, look at the one malformed option shown: "if s1 s2 :". This is not valid Python syntax; there is no relational operator between s1 and s2, so this condition cannot even be evaluated, and any statement depending on it would raise a syntax error at parse time rather than evaluating to True or False.
Since the options list is empty, there are no alternative statements provided to compare against. If there were an option like "if s1 < s2:" it would evaluate to True, as explained above, while a syntactically invalid option such as "if s1 s2:" would not be a valid conditional and cannot be considered a correct True-evaluating statement.
In a typical multiple-choice setup, you would expect distinct option texts such as:
- if s1 < s2:
- if s1 == s2:
- if s1 > s2:
- if s1 s2:  (invalid syntax)
Among valid options, the one reflecting the actual Python evaluation given s1 = "CAT" and s2 = "cat" would be the comparison using a relational operator (e.g., <), which we determined to be True. The invalid option would be eliminated on the basis of invalid syntax rather than Boolean truth value.
Because the provided answer options are incomplete, this analysis focuses on the underlying code behavior and the issues with the given option. If additional options were supplied, the evaluation would involve checking each conditional for syntactic validity and then its truth value under the given string values.

Fal25_CS003C_74229 Ch. 3 Pre-Quiz (Remotely Proctored)

Consider the following code segment: s1 = "CAT"s2 = "cat"Which of the following if statements has a condition that evaluates to True?

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