Electronics Worksheet: Loops and Variables
Remember (Trace every pass): count = count + k adds k each time round; after n rounds: start + n × k. A loop inside a loop runs outer × inner times. while (condition) repeats until the condition is false — count the rounds as you trace.
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- 1.🔁 What does “count = count + 1” do? (a) sets count to 1 (b) prints 1 (c) adds 1 to count (d) takes 1 away
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2.🔁 total = 0
for i = 1 to 5 { total = total + i }
What is total at the end? -
3.🔁 count = 4
while (count < 8) { count = count + 2 }
How many times does the loop run? -
4.🔁 total = 0
for i = 1 to 10 { total = total + i }
What is total at the end? -
5.🔁 count = 5
while (count < 11) { count = count + 2 }
How many times does the loop run? -
6.🔁 count = 0
repeat 2 times { count = count + 10 }
What is count at the end? - 7.🔁 What does a variable do in a program? (a) blinks an LED (b) measures light (c) joins two wires (d) stores a value
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8.🔁 x = 2
repeat 5 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
9.🔁 x = 5
repeat 2 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
10.🔁 count = 7
repeat 6 times { count = count + 2 }
What is count at the end? -
11.🔁 x = 3
repeat 4 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
12.🔁 total = 0
for i = 1 to 4 { total = total + i }
What is total at the end? -
13.🔁 count = 4
repeat 6 times { count = count + 2 }
What is count at the end? -
14.🔁 count = 3
repeat 9 times { count = count + 5 }
What is count at the end? -
15.🔁 repeat 4 times { repeat 6 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
16.🔁 count = 1
while (count < 16) { count = count + 3 }
How many times does the loop run? -
17.🔁 x = 5
repeat 1 time { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
18.🔁 total = 0
for i = 1 to 3 { total = total + i }
What is total at the end? -
19.🔁 count = 5
while (count < 9) { count = count + 2 }
How many times does the loop run? -
20.🔁 count = 4
while (count < 20) { count = count + 2 }
How many times does the loop run? -
21.🔁 x = 3
repeat 2 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
22.🔁 count = 2
repeat 3 times { count = count + 3 }
What is count at the end? -
23.🔁 repeat 6 times { repeat 3 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
24.🔁 count = 3
repeat 2 times { count = count + 3 }
What is count at the end? -
25.🔁 count = 0
while (count < 25) { count = count + 5 }
How many times does the loop run? -
26.🔁 count = 4
repeat 4 times { count = count + 6 }
What is count at the end? -
27.🔁 repeat 5 times { repeat 5 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
28.🔁 repeat 2 times { repeat 4 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
29.🔁 x = 3
repeat 1 time { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
30.🔁 x = 1
repeat 2 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
31.🔁 repeat 5 times { repeat 6 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
32.🔁 count = 0
while (count < 12) { count = count + 4 }
How many times does the loop run? -
33.🔁 x = 2
repeat 1 time { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
34.🔁 x = 4
repeat 5 times { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
35.🔁 count = 1
while (count < 29) { count = count + 4 }
How many times does the loop run? -
36.🔁 x = 1
repeat 1 time { x = x × 2 }
What is x at the end? -
37.🔁 repeat 4 times { repeat 4 times { beep } }
How many beeps are there? -
38.🔁 count = 1
while (count < 16) { count = count + 5 }
How many times does the loop run? -
39.🔁 total = 0
for i = 1 to 12 { total = total + i }
What is total at the end? -
40.🔁 count = 2
while (count < 34) { count = count + 4 }
How many times does the loop run?
Answer key
- adds 1 to count
- 15
- 2
- 55
- 3
- 20
- stores a value
- 64
- 20
- 19
- 48
- 10
- 16
- 48
- 24
- 5
- 10
- 6
- 2
- 8
- 12
- 11
- 18
- 9
- 5
- 28
- 25
- 8
- 6
- 4
- 30
- 3
- 4
- 128
- 7
- 2
- 16
- 3
- 78
- 8
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