What is the output of this program? color="Navy Blue"; print(color [5/8] ) (1 point)

Navy Blue
Blu
Blue
navy blue

1 answer

In the given code, the variable color is assigned the string "Navy Blue". The expression color[5/8] is attempting to access an index of the string using the result of the operation 5/8.

In Python 3, 5/8 performs floating-point division and evaluates to 0.625. However, string indexing requires an integer. If you want to perform integer indexing, you need to use // for integer division or manually cast it to an int.

Since 5/8 is not an integer index, it will raise a TypeError. Thus, under normal circumstances with no additional conversion or adjustment to make it an integer, the program would actually result in an error instead of producing any of the suggested outputs.

If your intention was to index at 5 // 8, which would evaluate to 0, you would get the character 'N' (the first character of the string). However, for the provided code, it does not lead to any of the given output options.

In conclusion, the output of the provided program is an error (TypeError) rather than any of the options.