Answer / sayan

since no sign clause is mentioned, the minus sign is
ignored and the resultant value of X will be 10.

Answer / sweta

Answer will be 10.

Answer / rajiv gupta

Answeer would be 10. as 20 -10 should be -10 but X is not
declared as signed variable as S9(2)so answer is 10.

Answer / swappy

Answer #3 is correct. Since there is no sign clause it will
just ignore the -ve sign and resultant will be 10.
Also Prabhu, there is no problem with the level no. There
will not be any error due to the level no.

Answer / madhu

x=x-20 will be -10

Since there is a -ve sign in the beginning it'll be stored
on top of the last digit. So -0 = }.

Then ans will be 1}

Answer / guest

x= x -20 it will give error

Answer / prabhu shankar

If u see the level number itself u can able to say that it
will show error. Because PIC will have the level number 77
and not like 01,02,03.


So it show the error only.Wll not exucute.

I think so. If any wrong plz apologise me.

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