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The Conditional Operator and the 'switch' Statement

3. Maximum and Minimum



Answer:
The expression is evaluated to 21.


Maximum and Minimum





    

    

    

        

            

                

            

        

    















    




int a = 7, b = 21;
a > b ? a : b 
The expression evaluates to the maximum of two values:
  1. The condition a > b is false, so
  2. The part after the colon (:) is evaluated, to 21.
  3. That value is given to the entire conditional expression.
(Usually such an expression is part of a longer statement that does something with the value.)
Here is a program fragment that prints the minimum of two variables.
int a = 7, b = 21;
System.out.println( "The min is: " + (a ______ b ? a : b ) );
Other than the blank, the fragment is correct. The value of the conditional expression is used with the concatenation operator + in the println() statement.



Question 3:
Fill in the blank so that the fragment works correctly.