he following program is supposed to find the average of five grades. 1 sum = 0 2 for x in range(0,5): 3 temp = float(input("Grade: ")) 4 sum = temp + 1 5 6 grade = sum / 5 7 print("Grade = " + str(grade)) But the average is not printing out correctly. A sample run looks as given below. Grade: 100 Grade: 67 Grade: 89 Grade: 92 Grade: 81 Grade = 16.4 ** Process exited - Return Code: 0 ** Press Enter to exit terminal To find the error which variable would be most appropriate to print out to debug the program? (1 point) Responses x x temp temp grade

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To debug the program and find out why the average is not printing out correctly, the most appropriate variable to print out would be sum.

Here's the reason:

  • The program is intended to accumulate the sum of grades over five iterations, but the line sum = temp + 1 is incorrectly updating sum instead of adding temp to the current sum. This causes sum to always be equal to 1 plus the last grade entered, which is why the average computation leads to an incorrect result.

By printing out sum before line 6, you can see how the value changes with each iteration and identify that the accumulation of grades is not occurring as expected.

So, printing sum would help you determine the erroneous logic in how the grades are summed.