HIGHER SECONDARY – SECOND YEAR

COMPUTER SCIENCE
CHAPTER 1
FUNCTION

PART – I
CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER:
1. The small sections of code that are used to 6. Which of the following are mandatory to write the
perform a particular task is called type annotations in the function definition?
(A) Subroutines (B) Files (A) Curly braces (B) Parentheses
(C) Pseudo code (D) Modules (C) Square brackets (D) indentations

2. Which of the following is a unit of code that is 7. Which of the following defines what an object
often defined within a greater code structure? can do?
(A) Subroutines (B) Function (A) Operating System (B) Compiler
(C) Files (D) Modules (C) Interface (D) Interpreter

3. Which of the following is a distinct syntactic 8. Which of the following carries out the instructions
block? defined in the interface?
(A) Subroutines (B) Function (A) Operating System (B) Compiler
(C) Definition (D) Modules (C) Implementation (D) Interpreter

4. The variables in a function definition are called 9. The functions which will give exact result when
as same arguments are passed are called
(A) Subroutines (B) Function (A) Impure functions (B) Partial Functions
(C) Definition (D) Parameters (C) Dynamic Functions (D) Pure functions

5. The values which are passed to a function 10. The functions which cause side effects to the
definition are called arguments passed are called
(A) Arguments (B) Subroutines (A) Impure function (B) Partial Functions
(C) Function (D) Definition (C) Dynamic Functions (D) Pure functions

CHAPTER 2
DATA ABSTRACTION

1. Which of the following functions those build the

abstract data type? 5. The data type whose representation is known
(A) Constructors (B) Destructors are called
(C) recursive (D) Nested (A) Built in datatype (B) Derived datatype
(C) Concrete datatype (D) Abstract datatype
2. Which of the following functions that retrieve
information from the data type? 6. The data type whose representation is unknown
(A) Constructors (B) Selectors are called
(C) recursive (D) Nested (A) Built in datatype (B) Derived datatype
(C) Concrete datatype (D) Abstract datatype
3. The data structure which is a mutable ordered
sequence of elements is called 7. Which of the following is a compound structure?
(A) Built in (B) List (A) Pair (B) Triplet
(C) Tuple (D) Derived data (C) single (D) quadrat
4. A sequence of immutable objects is called
(A) Built in (B) List
(C) Tuple (D) Derived data

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8. Bundling two values together into one can be (A) Tuples (B) Lists
considered as (C) Classes (D) quadrats
(A) Pair (B) Triplet
(C) single (D) quadrat 10. Which of the following is constructed by placing
expressions within square brackets?
9. Which of the following allow to name the various (A) Tuples (B) Lists
parts of a multi-item object? (C) Classes (D) quadrats

CHAPTER 3
SCOPING

6. The process of subdividing a computer program

1. Which of the following refers to the visibility of into separate sub-programs is called
variables in one part of a program to another (A) Procedural Programming
part of the same program? (B) Modular programming
(A) Scope (B) Memory (C) Event Driven Programming
(C) Address (D) Accessibility (D) Object oriented Programming

2. The process of binding a variable name with an 7. Which of the following security technique that
object is called regulates who can use resources in a
(A) Scope (B) Mapping computing environment?
(C) late binding (D) early binding (A) Password (B) Authentication
(C) Access control (D) Certification
3. Which of the following is used in programming
languages to map the variable and object? 8. Which of the following members of a class can
(A) :: (B) := (C) = (D) == be handled only from within the class?
(A) Public members (B) Protected members
4. Containers for mapping names of variables to (C) Secured members (D) Private members
objects is called
(A) Scope (B) Mapping 9. Which members are accessible from outside the
(C) Binding (D) Namespaces class?
(A) Public members (B) Protected members
5. Which scope refers to variables defined in (C) Secured members (D) Private members
current function?
(A) Local Scope (B) Global scope 10. The members that are accessible from within
(C) Module scope (D) Function Scope the class and are also available to its sub-
classes is called
(A) Public members (B) Protected members
(C) Secured members (D) Private members

CHAPTER 4
ALGORITHMIC STRATEGIES

1. The word comes from the name of a Persian 2. From the following sorting algorithms which
mathematician Abu Ja’far Mohammed ibn-i algorithm needs the minimum number of
Musa al Khowarizmi is called? swaps?
(A) Flowchart (B) Flow (A) Bubble sort (B) Insertion sort
(C) Algorithm (D) Syntax (C) Selection sort (D) All the above

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3. Two main measures for the efficiency of an 7. Time complexity of bubble sort in best case is
algorithm are (A) θ (n) (B) θ (nlogn)
(A) Processor and memory (C) θ (n2) (D) θ (n(logn) 2)
(B) Complexity and capacity
(C) Time and space (D) Data and space 8. The Θ notation in asymptotic evaluation
represents
4. The complexity of linear search algorithm is (A) Base case (B) Average case
(A) O(n) (B) O(log n) (C) Worst case (D) NULL case
(C) O(n2) (D) O(n log n)
9. If a problem can be broken into subproblems
5. From the following sorting algorithms which has which are reused several times, the problem
the lowest worst case complexity? possesses which property?
(A) Bubble sort (B) Quick sort (A) Overlapping subproblems
(C) Merge sort (D) Selection sort (B) Optimal substructure
(C) Memoization (D) Greedy
6. Which of the following is not a stable sorting
algorithm? 10. In dynamic programming, the technique of
(A) Insertion sort (B) Selection sort storing the previously calculated values is
(C) Bubble sort (D) Quick sort called?
(A) Saving value property
(B) Storing value property
(C) Memoization (D) Mapping

Chapter - 5
PYTHON - VARIABLES AND OPERATORS
1. Who developed Python?
(A) Ritche (B) Guido Van Rossum 6. Which of the following is not a token?
(C) Bill Gates (D) Sunder Pitchai (A) Interpreter (B) Identifiers
(C) Keyword (D) Operators
2. The Python prompt indicates that Interpreter is
ready to accept instruction. 7. Which of the following is not a Keyword in
(A) >>> (B) <<< Python?
(C) # (D) << (A) break (B) while
(C) continue (D) operators
3. Which of the following shortcut is used to create
new Python Program? 8. Which operator is also called as Comparative
(A) Ctrl + C (B) Ctrl + F operator?
(C) Ctrl + B (D) Ctrl + N (A) Arithmetic (B) Relational
(C) Logical (D) Assignment
4. Which of the following character is used to give
comments in Python Program? 9. Which of the following is not logical operator?
(A) # (B) & (A) and (B) Or
(C) @ (D) $ (C) Not (D) Assignment

5. This symbol is used to print more than one item 10. Which operator is also called as Conditional
on a single line. operator?
(A) Semicolon(;) (B) Dollor($) (A) Ternary (B) Relational
(C) comma(,) (D) Colon(:) (C) Logical (D) Assignment

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 Chapter – 6
CONTROL STRUCTURES
1. How many important control structures are there 7. What is the output of the following snippet?
in Python? i=1
(A) 3 (B) 4 while True:
(C) 5 (D) 6 if i%3 ==0:
break
2. elif can be considered to be abbreviation of print(i,end='')
(A) nested if (B) if..else i +=1
(C) else if (D) if..elif (A) 12 (B) 123
(C) 1234 (D) 124
3. What plays a vital role in Python programming?
(A) Statements (B) Control 8. What is the output of the following snippet?
(C) Structure (D) Indentation T=1
while T:
4. Which statement is generally used as a print(True)
placeholder? break
(A) continue (B) break (A) False (B) True
(C) pass (D) goto (C) 0 (D) no output

5. The condition in the if statement should be in the 9. Which amongst is not a jump statement?
form of (A) for (B) goto
(A) Arithmetic or Relational expression (C) continue (D) break
(B) Arithmetic or Logical expression
(C) Relational or Logical expression 10. Which punctuation should be used in the block?
(D) Arithmetic if <condition>……..
statements-block 1
6. Which is the most comfortable loop? else:
(A) do..while (B) while statements-block 2
(C) for (D) if..elif (A) ; (B) :
(C) :: (D) !

Chapter – 7
PYTHON FUNCTIONS

1. A named blocks of code that are designed to do 3. Which function is called anonymous un-named
one specific job is called as function?
(A) Loop (B) Branching (A) Lambda (B) Recursion
(C) Function (D) Block (C) Function (D) define

2. A Function which calls itself is called as 4. Which of the following keyword is used to begin
(A) Built-in (B) Recursion the function block?
(C) Lambda (D) return (A) define (B) for
(C) finally (D) def

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5. Which of the following keyword is used to exit a (II) Python keywords can be used as function
function block? name.
(A) define (B) return (A) I is correct and II is wrong
(C) finally (D) def (B) Both are correct
(C) I is wrong and II is correct
6. While defining a function which of the following (D) Both are wrong
symbol is used.
(A) ; (semicolon) (B) . (dot) 9. Pick the correct one to execute the given
(C) : (colon) (D) $ (dollar) statement successfully.
if : print(x, " is a leap year")
7. In which arguments the correct positional order is (A) x%2=0 (B) x%4==0
passed to a function? (C) x/4=0 (D) x%4=0
(A) Required (B) Keyword
(C) Default (D) Variable-length 10. Which of the following keyword is used to
define the function testpython()?
8. Read the following statement and choose the (A) define (B) pass
correct statement(s). (C) def (D) while
(I) In Python, you don’t have to mention the specific
data types while defining function.

Chapter – 8
STRINGS AND STRING MANIPULATION
1. Which of the following is the output of the
following python code? 6. Which of the following is the slicing operator?
str1="TamilNadu" (A) { } (B) [ ] (C) < > (D) ( )
print(str1[::-1])
(A) Tamilnadu (B) Tmlau
(C) udanlimaT (D) udaNlimaT 7. What is stride?
(A) index value of slide operation
2. What will be the output of the following code? (B) first argument of slice operation
str1 = "Chennai Schools" (C) second argument of slice operation
str1[7] = "-" (D) third argument of slice operation
(A) Chennai-Schools (B) Chenna-School
(C) Type error (D) Chennai
8. Which of the following formatting character is
3. Which of the following operator is used for used to print exponential notation in upper case?
concatenation? (A) %e (B) %E (C) %g (D) %n
(A) + (B) & (C) * (D) =
9. Which of the following is used as placeholders or
4. Defining strings within triple quotes allows replacement fields which get replaced along with
creating: format( ) function?
(A) Single line Strings (B) Multiline Strings
(A) { } (B) < > (C) ++ (D) ^^
(C) Double line Strings (D) Multiple Strings

5. Strings in python: 10. The subscript of a string may be:

(A) Changeable (B) Mutable (A) Positive (B) Negative
(C) Immutable (D) flexible (C) Both (a) and (b) (D) Either (a) or (b)

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 Chapter – 9
LISTS, TUPLES, SETS AND DICTIONARY

1. Pick odd one in connection with collection data print(S)

type (A) [0,1,2,4,5] (B) [0,1,4,9,16]
(A) List (B) Tuple (C) [0,1,4,9,16,25] (D) [1,4,9,16,25]
(C) Dictionary (D) Loop
8. What is the use of type() function in python?
2. Let list1=[2,4,6,8,10], then print(List1[-2]) will (A) To create a Tuple
result in (B) To know the type of an element in tuple
(A) 10 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 6 (C) To know the data type of python object
(D) To create a list
3. Which of the following function is used to count
the number of elements in a list? 9. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(A) count( ) (B) find( ) (A) A list is mutable
(C)len( ) (D) index( ) (B) A tuple is immutable.
(C) The append() function is used to add an
4. If List=[10,20,30,40,50] then List[2]=35 will result element.
(A) [35,10,20,30,40,50] (B) [10,20,30,40,50,35] (D) The extend() function is used in tuple to add
(C) [10,20,35,40,50] (D) [10,35,30,40,50] elements in a list.

5. If List=[17,23,41,10] then List.append(32) will 10. Let setA={3,6,9}, setB={1,3,9}. What will be the
result result of the following snippet?
(A) [32,17,23,41,10] (B) [17,23,41,10,32] print(setA|setB)
(C) [10,17,23,32,41] (D) [41,32,23,17,10] (A) {3,6,9,1,3,9} (B) {3,9}
(C) {1} (D) {1,3,6,9}
6. Which of the following Python function can be
used to add more than one element within an 11. Which of the following set operation includes all
existing list? the elements that are in two sets but not the
(A) append( ) (B) append_more( ) one that are common to two sets?
(C) extend( ) (D) more( ) (A) Symmetric difference (B) Difference
(C) Intersection (D) Union
7. What will be the result of the following Python
code? 12. The keys in Python, dictionary is specified by
S=[x**2 for x in range(5)] (A) = (B) ; (C)+ (D) :

Chapter – 10
CLASSES AND OBJECTS
1. Which of the following are the key features of an 3. Class members are accessed through which
Object Oriented Programming language? operator?
(A) Constructor and Classes (A) & (B) . (C) # (D) %
(B) Constructor and Object
(C) Classes and Objects 4. Which of the following method is automatically
(D) Constructor and Destructor executed when an object is created?
(A) object ( ) (B) del ( )
2. Functions defined inside a class: (C) func ( ) (D) init ( )
(A) Functions (B) Module
(C) Methods (D) section 5. A private class variable is prefixed with
(A) (B) && (C) ## (D) **

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6. Which of the following method is used as self.name=name
destructor? print(name)
(A) init ( ) (B) dest ( ) S=Student(“Tamil”)
(C) rem ( ) (D)_ del_ ( )
(A) Error (B) Tamil
(C) name (D) self
7. Which of the following class declaration is
correct?
9. Which of the following is the private class
(A) class class_name
variable?
(B) class class_name<>
(A) num (B) ##num
(C) class class_name:
(C) $$num (D) &&num
(D) class class_name[ ]

10. The process of creating an object is called as:

8. Which of the following is the output of the
(A) Constructor (B) Destructor
following program?
(C) Initialize (D) Instantiation
class Student:
def init (self, name):

CHAPTER 11
DATABASE CONCEPTS

(A) one-to-one (B) one-to-many

1. What is the acronym of DBMS? (C) many-to-one (D) many-to-many
(A) DataBase Management Symbol
(B) Database Managing System 6. Who is called Father of Relational Database from
(C) DataBase Management System the following?
(D) DataBasic Management System (A) Chris Date (B)Hugh Darween
(C) Edgar Frank Codd (D) Edgar Frank Cadd
2. A table is known as
(A) tuple (B) attribute 7. Which of the following is an RDBMS?
(C) relation (D) entity (A) Dbase (B) Foxpro
(C) Monga DB (D) SQLite
3. Which database model represents parent-child
relationship? 8 What symbol is used for SELECT statement?
(A) Relational (B) Network (A) σ (B) Π (C) X (D) Ω
(C) Hierarchical (D) Object
9 A tuple is also known as
4. Relational database model was first proposed by (A) table (B) row
(A) E F Codd (B) E E Codd (C) attribute (D) field
(C) E F Cadd (D) E F Codder
10. Who developed ER model?
5. What type of relationship does hierarchical (A) Chen (B) EF Codd
model represents? (C) Chend (D) Chand

Chapter 12
STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

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1. Which commands provide definitions for creating (C) Create, Reset, Update, Download
table structure, deleting relations, and modifying (D) Create, Read, Update, Delete
relation schemas?
(A) DDL (B) DML 9. Expand: DDL
(C) DCL (D) DQL (A) Data Definition Language
(B) Data Delivery Language
2. Which command lets to change the structure of (C) Data Defined Link
the table? (D) Data Delivery Link
(A) SELECT (B) ORDER BY
(C) MODIFY (D) ALTER 10. Expand: DML
(A) Data Maintenance Link
3. The command to delete a table including the (B) Data Manipulation Link
structure is (C) Data Maintenance Language
(A) DROP (B) DELETE (D) Data Manipulation Language
(C) DELETE ALL (D) ALTER TABLE
11. Expand: EDML
4. Queries can be generated using (A) Export Data Maintenance Link
(A) SELECT (B) ORDER BY (B) Embedded Data Maintenance Link
(C) MODIFY (D) ALTER (C) Embedded Data Manipulation Language
(D) Export Data Manipulation Language
5. The clause used to sort data in a database
(A) SORT BY (B) ORDER BY 12. Expand: DCL
(C) GROUP BY (D) SELECT (A) Data Connect Language
(B) Data Connect Link
6. Expand: SQL (C) Data Control Link
(A) Structured Query Language . (D) Data Control Language
(B) Structured Question Language
(C) Sorted Query Language 13. Expand: TCL
(D) Sorted Question Language (A) Transfer Connect Link
(B) Transaction Connect Language
7. Expand: RDBMS (C) Transaction Control Language
(A) Regional Data Base Maintenance System (D) Transfer Control Link
(B) Relational Data Base Maintenance System
(C) Regional Data Base Management System 14. Expand: DQL
(D) Relational Data Base Management System (A) Data Question Language
(B) Data Query Language
8. CRUD means (C) Data Question Link
(A) Create, Retrieved, Upload, Delete (D) Data Query Link
(B) Change, Read, Upload, Delete

Chapter 13
PYTHON AND CSV FILES
1. A CSV file is also known as a
(A) Flat File (B) 3D File 3. Which of the following module is provided by
(C) String File (D) Random File Python to do several operations on the CSV
files?
2. The expansion of CRLF is (A) py (B) xls
(A) Control Return and Line Feed (C) csv (D) os
(B) Carriage Return and Form Feed
(C) Control Router and Line Feed
(D) Carriage Return and Line Feed
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4. Which of the following mode is used when (D) chennai,mylapore
dealing with non-text files like image or exe mumbai,andheri
files?
(A) Text mode (B) Binary mode 8. Which of the following creates an object which
(C) xls mode (D) csv mode maps data to a dictionary?
(A) listreader( ) (B) reader( )
5. The command used to skip a row in a CSV file is (C) tuplereader( ) (D) DicReader( )
(A) next( ) (B) skip( )
(C) omit( ) (D) bounce( ) 9. Making some changes in the data of the existing
file or adding more data is called
6. Which of the following is a string used to (A) Editing (B) Appending
terminate lines produced by writer() method of (C) Modification (D) Alteration
csv module?
(A) Line Terminator (B) Enter key 10. What will be written inside the file test.csv using
(C) Form feed (D) Data Terminator the following program?
import csv
7. What is the output of the following program? D = [['Exam'],['Quarterly'],['Halfyearly']]
import csv csv.register_dialect('M',lineterminato
d=csv.reader(open('c:\......\ ...... \city.csv')) r = '\n')
next(d) with open('c:\pyprg\ch13\line2.csv',
for row in d: 'w') as f:
print(row) wr = csv.writer(f,dialect='M')
wr.writerows(D)
if the file called “city.csv” contain the following f.close()
details (A) Exam Quarterly Halfyearly
chennai,mylapore (B) Exam Halfyearly Quarterly
mumbai,andheri (C) E
Q
(A) chennai,mylapore H
(B) mumbai,andheri (D) Exam,
Quarterly
(C) chennai Halfyearly
mumbai

CHAPTER 14
IMPORTING C++ PROGRAMS IN PYTHON

1. Which of the following is not a scripting (B) Application Programming Interface

language? (C) Application Performing Interface
(A) JavaScript (B) PHP (D) Application Programming Interlink
(C) Perl (D) HTML
4. A framework for interfacing Python and C++ is
2. Importing C++ program in a Python program is (A) Ctypes (B) SWIG
called (C) Cython (D) Boost
(A) wrapping (B) Downloading
(C) Interconnecting (D) Parsing 5. Which of the following is a software design
technique to split your code into separate
parts?
3. The expansion of API is (A) Object oriented Programming
(A) Application Programming Interpreter (B) Modular programming
(C) Low Level Programming

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(D) Procedure oriented Programming if name ==' main ':
main(sys.argv[1:])
6. The module which allows you to interface with (A) main(sys.argv[1:]) (B) name
the Windows operating system is (C) main (D) argv
(A) OS module (B) sys module
(C) csv module (D) getopt module 9. Which of the following can be used for
processing text, numbers, images, and
7. getopt( ) will return an empty array if there is no scientific data?
error in splitting strings to (A) HTML (B) C
(A) argv variable (B) opt variable (C) C++ (D) PYTHON
(C) args variable (D) ifile variable
10. What does name contains ?
8. Identify the function call statement in the (A) C++ filename (B) main( ) name
following snippet. (C) Python filename (D) OS module name

CHAPTER 15
DATA MANIPULATION THROUGH SQL

1. Which of the following is an organized collection

of data?
(A) Database (B) DBMS 6. Which of the following function retrieves the
(C) Information (D) Records average of a selected column of rows in a
table?
2. SQLite falls under which database system? (A) Add() (B) SUM()
(A) Flat file database system (C) AVG() (D) AVERAGE()
(B) Relational Database system
(C) Hierarchical database system 7. The function that returns the largest value of the
(D) Object oriented Database system selected column is
(A) MAX() (B) LARGE()
3. Which of the following is a control structure used (C) HIGH() (D) MAXIMUM()
to traverse and fetch the records of the
database? 8. Which of the following is called the master table?
(A) Pointer (B) Key (A) sqlite_master (B) sql_master
(C) Cursor (D) Insertion point (C) main_master (D) master_main

4. Any changes made in the values of the record 9. The most commonly used statement in SQL is
should be saved by the command (A) cursor (B) select
(A) Save (B) Save As (C) execute (D) commit
(C) Commit (D) Oblige
10. Which of the following clause avoid the
5. Which of the following executes the SQL duplicate?
command to perform some action? (A) Distinct (B) Remove
(A) Execute() (B) Key() (C) Where (D) GroupBy
(C) Cursor() (D) run()

Chapter 16
DATA VISUALIZATION USING PYPLOT:
LINE CHART, PIE CHART AND BAR CHART

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1. Which is a python package used for 2D
graphics? 4. Read the following code: Identify the purpose of
(A) matplotlib.pyplot (B) matplotlib.pip this code and choose the right option from the
(C) matplotlib.numpy (D) matplotlib.plt following.
C:\Users\Your
2. Identify the package manager for Python Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Pyt
packages, or modules. hon36-32\Scripts>pip list
(A) Matplotlib (B) PIP (A) List installed packages (B) list command
(C) plt.show( ) (D) python package (C) Install PIP (D) packages installed

3. Read the following code: Identify the purpose of 5. To install matplotlib, the following command will
this code and choose the right option from the be typed in your command prompt.
following. What does “-U”represents?
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Progra Python –m pip install –U matplotlib
ms\Python\Python36-32\Scripts>pip – (A) downloading pip to the latest version
version (B) upgrading pip to the latest version
(A) Check if PIP is Installed (B) Install PIP (C) removing pip
(C) Download a Package (D)Check PIP version (D) upgrading matplotlib to the latest version

6. Observe the output figure. Identify the coding for obtaining this output.

(A) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt (C) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,1]) plt.plot([2,3],[5,1])
plt.show() plt.show()

(B) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt (D) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([1,2],[4,5]) plt.plot([1,3],[4,1])
plt.show() plt.show()

7. Read the code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(3,2)

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 plt.show()
Identify the output for the above coding.
(A) (B)

(C) (D)

8. Which key is used to run the module?

(A) F6 (B) F4 10. Read the statements given below. Identify the
(C) F3 (D) F5 right option from the following for pie chart.
Statement A: To make a pie chart with Matplotlib,
9. Identify the right type of chart using the following we can use the plt.pie() function.
hints. Statement B: The autopct parameter allows us to
Hint 1: This chart is often used to visualize a trend display the percentage value using the Python
in data over intervals of time. string formatting.
Hint 2: The line in this type of chart is often drawn (A) Statement A is correct
chronologically. (B) Statement B is correct
(A) Line chart (B) Bar chart (C) Both the statements are correct
(C) Pie chart (D) Scatter plot (D) Both the statements are wrong

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