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A sign-up sheet for a field trip asks schools to enter how many students they have and how many teachers are available so that tour groups of the correct sizes can be created. Which error is most likely to happen when this program is run?

(1 point)
Responses

division by zero

division by zero

index out of range

index out of range

not enough memory

not enough memory

data type mismatch

data type mismatch
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Answer 1

The most likely error to occur in this scenario would be division by zero.

This could happen if the program tries to divide the number of students by the number of teachers to determine group sizes, and if the number of teachers entered is zero (meaning there are no teachers available), it would result in a division by zero error.

The other options such as "index out of range", "not enough memory", and "data type mismatch" could also occur in different contexts, but based on the setup described in the prompt, division by zero is the most relevant error.