Zend 200-710 Exam - Topic 8 Question 86 Discussion

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Question #: 86
Topic #: 8

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What is the output of the following code?

echo "1" + 2 * "0x02";

D20

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by Rodolfo at Mar 04, 2025, 06:37 AM

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Tegan

3 months ago

Are you sure it's not 20? That seems off.

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Dylan

3 months ago

Definitely 5, no doubt about it.

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Son

3 months ago

I thought it would be 3.

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Erasmo

4 months ago

The output is 5!

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Tori

4 months ago

Wait, how does "0x02" even work here?

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Kaycee

4 months ago

I'm leaning towards 5 as well, but I feel like I need to double-check how PHP handles hexadecimal strings in calculations.

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Tequila

4 months ago

I practiced a similar question where string and number operations were involved, and I think the answer was 5, but I could be mixing it up.

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Cathern

5 months ago

I remember something about type coercion in PHP, but I can't recall if "0x02" gets converted to 2 or something else.

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Laquita

5 months ago

I think the output might be 3, but I'm not entirely sure how the multiplication and addition work together here.

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Kassandra

5 months ago

I'll start by evaluating the multiplication, then add the result to the "1". That should give me the final output.

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Aimee

5 months ago

I'm a bit confused by the use of the string "0x02" here. How does that interact with the numeric operations?

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Aleta

5 months ago

I'm pretty confident I know the answer, but I want to double-check my work just to be sure.

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Eliseo

6 months ago

Okay, let me try to break this down step-by-step. First, I need to convert the hexadecimal value to decimal.

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Lorrine

6 months ago

Hmm, this looks tricky. I'll need to think through the order of operations carefully.

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Charlie

11 months ago

Is this a test of my mental arithmetic skills or something? I'm just gonna guess... option A. Why not, right?

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Barrett

10 months ago

User1: Nope, the correct answer is option E because of the way the code is evaluated.

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Kristofer

10 months ago

User2: Really? I thought it was option B.

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Eleonora

10 months ago

User1: It's not option A, it's actually option E.

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Amira

11 months ago

Aha! I know this one. The answer is C, 5. Piece of cake!

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Stevie

9 months ago

It's actually D) 20. You need to remember the order of operations.

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Owen

10 months ago

Really? I thought it was C) 5.

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Colette

10 months ago

No, the correct answer is E) 7.

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Angella

11 months ago

Whoa, wait a minute. Is this some kind of trick question? I'm gonna go with option E, just to be safe.

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Susana

11 months ago

A classic PHP gotcha! I'm going with option D. 20 all the way, baby!

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Jestine

11 months ago

Oh, I see. So the answer is E) 7. Thanks for the explanation!

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Blair

11 months ago

It's actually 7. PHP converts the string '0x02' to its hexadecimal value before multiplying.

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Chaya

12 months ago

Hmm, this is a tricky one. Let me think... Okay, I'm going with option B. It's gotta be 3, right?

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Thad

11 months ago

User 4: Me too, option B seems right.

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Lenna

11 months ago

User 3: I'm not sure, but I'll go with 3 as well.

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Regenia

11 months ago

User 2: Yeah, that makes sense.

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Dorothea

11 months ago

User 1: I think it's 3 too.

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Ty

12 months ago

I'm not sure, but I think the correct answer is C) 5 because 2 * 2 is 4 and adding 1 gives 5.

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Pearlie

12 months ago

I believe it's E) 7 because 2 * 0x02 is 4 in hexadecimal.

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Von

12 months ago

I think the answer is B) 3.

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