{"id":151283,"date":"2024-10-09T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=151283"},"modified":"2024-10-09T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:36:19","slug":"which-statement-about-fruitful-function-calls-is-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/09\/which-statement-about-fruitful-function-calls-is-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Which statement about fruitful function calls is false"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which statement about fruitful function calls is  false?<br>A. Print is a fruitful function.<br>B. A fruitful function definition must have at least one return statement.<br>C. After a fruitful function executes, the function call becomes an expression.<br>D. input is a fruitful function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>D. input is a fruitful function.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the false statement, we need to explore what a <em>fruitful function<\/em> is. In Python, a <em>fruitful function<\/em> is one that returns a value. A fruitful function has a return statement, and the function call itself is an expression that evaluates to the value returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s analyze each statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A. Print is a fruitful function.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This statement is <strong>false<\/strong>. The <code>print()<\/code> function is <strong>not<\/strong> a fruitful function because it doesn&#8217;t return a value. Instead, it simply outputs data to the console and returns <code>None<\/code>. Since <code>print()<\/code> does not return a meaningful value that can be used later, it is not considered fruitful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B. A fruitful function definition must have at least one return statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This statement is <strong>true<\/strong>. A fruitful function in Python must have at least one return statement. If no <code>return<\/code> statement is provided, the function implicitly returns <code>None<\/code>. So, to be fruitful, the function must explicitly return a value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C. After a fruitful function executes, the function call becomes an expression.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This statement is <strong>true<\/strong>. When a fruitful function executes and returns a value, the function call itself becomes an expression that evaluates to the returned value. For instance:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  def add(a, b):\n      return a + b\n\n  result = add(3, 4)  # 'add(3, 4)' becomes an expression that evaluates to 7<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>D. Input is a fruitful function.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This statement is <strong>false<\/strong>. The <code>input()<\/code> function is considered fruitful because it returns the data entered by the user as a string. After executing <code>input()<\/code>, the result of the function call is the string entered by the user, making it a fruitful function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, <strong>A<\/strong> is incorrect because <code>print()<\/code> is not fruitful, while <code>input()<\/code> is indeed fruitful. Therefore, <strong>D<\/strong> should be corrected as &#8220;input is a fruitful function.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which statement about fruitful function calls is false?A. Print is a fruitful function.B. A fruitful function definition must have at least one return statement.C. After a fruitful function executes, the function call becomes an expression.D. input is a fruitful function. The correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is D. input is a fruitful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}