Q.What will be the output of the following statement?

print(14%3**2*4)  

(A) 16 (B) 64 (C) 20 (D) 256

The key idea is Python's operator precedence. Operators are applied in a fixed order: exponentiation (**) first, then multiplication (*) and modulo (%) — and operators of equal precedence run left to right.

1. Evaluate the exponentiation: 3**2 becomes 9. The expression is now 14%9*4.
2. Evaluate modulo (equal precedence with *, so left to right): 14%9 is the remainder of 14 divided by 9, which is 5. The expression is now 5*4. …

When evaluating an expression like 14%3**2*4 in Python, the order of operations is decided by operator precedence, which is similar to BODMAS/PEMDAS but tailored to Python's operators.

For the operators here:

• ** (exponentiation) has the highest precedence.
• * (multiplication) and % (modulo) share the same, lower precedence.
• Operators of equal precedence are evaluated left to right.

Let's break it down step by step.

1. Exponentiation (**) first. 3**2 means 3 raised to the power 2, i.e. 3 x 3 = 9. The expression becomes 14 % 9 * 4.

2. Modulo (%) and multiplication (*), left to right. Both have equal precedence, so we go left to right. …