The following program is supposed to find the average of five grades.

Question

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

sum
sum

grade
grade

x
x

temp

Answer 1

To debug the program, the most appropriate variable to print out would be sum.

The reason for this is that the calculation of the sum is incorrect. In the line sum = temp + 1, the program is mistakenly adding 1 to the current grade instead of adding the grade value to the running total of grades. Printing sum at various points in the loop will help you see how it's being computed.

Here's a brief explanation of the error in the code:

• Instead of accumulating the grades by adding them to sum, it sets sum to temp + 1 each time through the loop, which results in the incorrect average being calculated.

To correct the code, you should change line 4 to:

sum += temp

This will correctly accumulate the grades input by the user.