26. Check for Understanding: For and While Loops

Check for Understanding

Time to pause and check your understanding about the important concepts of While Loops and For Loops.

There are certain requirements you want to consider adding into a while loop. Which of these requirements must be met? (Select all that apply)
SOLUTION:
  • The condition for exiting the while loop should be included
  • Check if the iteration condition is met
  • Body of the loop should change the value of condition variables

Question: What type of loop should we use?

You need to write a loop that takes the numbers in a given list named num_list:

num_list = [422, 136, 524, 85, 96, 719, 85, 92, 10, 17, 312, 542, 87, 23, 86, 191, 116, 35, 173, 45, 149, 59, 84, 69, 113, 166]

Your code should add up the odd numbers in the list, but only up to the first 5 odd numbers together. If there are more than 5 odd numbers, you should stop at the fifth. If there are fewer than 5 odd numbers, add all of the odd numbers.

** Would you use a while or a for loop to write this code? **

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