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AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles

Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 3

Lesson 5: Conditionals

Nested conditionals

A programmer for a music company is developing a program to determine the highest level of certification for an album.

The program needs to follow this table of thresholds for each certification level:

Minimum albums sold	Certification
500,000	gold
1,000,000	platinum
10,000,000	diamond

The code segment below uses nested conditionals to assign the certification variable to the appropriate value, but its conditions are missing operators.

certification ← "none"

IF (albumsSold <?> 10000000)
{
    certification ← "diamond"
} ELSE
{
    IF (albumsSold <?> 1000000)
    {
        certification ← "platinum"
    }
    ELSE {
        IF (albumsSold <?> 500000)
        {
            certification ← "gold"
        }
    }
}

Which operator could replace <?> so that the code snippet works as expected?

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[What language is the code in?]

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AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles

Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 3

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