Question

The 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

sum
sum

temp
temp

grade

Answer 1

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

Here is why:

- The variable `temp` correctly stores each individual grade input, but it does not directly contribute to the final average calculation in the way intended.
- The variable `x` is just looping through a range and won't help you understand the accumulated sum.
- The variable `grade` will give you the final output, but if the `sum` is incorrect, then `grade` will also be incorrect.

The issue in your code arises from this line:
```python
sum = temp + 1
```
This line is incorrectly adding `1` to `temp` instead of accumulating the grades together.

So, printing `sum` would help you identify that the accumulated sum is incorrect, while your calculation for the average is based on that incorrect sum.