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Chapter 7 — In, If, Random, and While
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Illustration 16: Flowchart of If Elif
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Three ways to do the same thing
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The three programs, below, actually do the exact same thing. They each illustrate a different way to use
if statements. This program will generate random grades for teacher when they don't want to grade
papers. They have decided that 10% of students will get an A, 15% will get a "B", 50% will get a "C",
15% a "D", and the remaining 10% will get an "F" and that the grade will be assigned randomly.
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Illustration 17: Lazy Professor Problem
Way One: Using complex if statements so that only one grade will be displayed. The conditions in
the if statements need to cover the full range of values returned by random.random() but have no
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