Nested conditionals

A programmer for a music company is developing a program to determine the highest level of certification for an album.

The program needs to follow this table of thresholds for each certification level:

Minimum albums sold	Certification
500,000	gold
1,000,000	platinum
10,000,000	diamond

The code segment below uses nested conditionals to assign the certification variable to the appropriate value, but its conditions are missing operators.

certification ← "none"

IF (albumsSold <?> 10000000)
{
    certification ← "diamond"
} ELSE
{
    IF (albumsSold <?> 1000000)
    {
        certification ← "platinum"
    }
    ELSE {
        IF (albumsSold <?> 500000)
        {
            certification ← "gold"
        }
    }
}

Which operator could replace <?> so that the code snippet works as expected?

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This code is written in pseudocode. You can't actually run pseudocode, but we use it for planning programs and for thinking about code independently of specific programming language.

AP CSP exam questions use pseudocode, so it's helpful to become familiar with it.

Here is a reference for the pseudocode used here:

IF (<condition>)
{
     <instructions 1>
} 
ELSE 
{
     <instructions 2>
}

If the <condition> is true, the first set of instructions is executed. Otherwise, the second set of instructions is executed. Each instructions block may contain additional nested IF/ELSE conditions.

a ← expression

Evaluates expression and assigns the result to the variable a.

**Relational operators**
Operator	Meaning
`a = b`	Equality
`a ≠ b`	Inequality
`a > b`	Greater than
`a < b`	Less than
`a ≥ b`	Greater than or equal
`a ≤ b`	Less than or equal

AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles

Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 3

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