WGU Foundations of Programming Python Exam - Topic 2 Question 1 Discussion

The loop condition is:

while count > 0:

At the start, count is 5, so the condition is true. The program prints the value of count.

However, inside the loop, the value of count is never changed. That means count always stays 5, so the condition count > 0 is always true. As a result, the loop runs forever.

A corrected version would be:

count = 5

while count > 0:

print(count)

count = count - 1

This decreases count by 1 during each loop iteration. Eventually, count becomes 0, and the condition count > 0 becomes false.

Therefore, the correct answer isB. It runs infinitely because count is never modified.