A way of passing arguments in which the order of the arguments determines the initial parameter's values is referred to as:

Question

Options

• Apositional
• Bsequential
• Cordered
• Dordered

• A
  72% (31)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  16% (7)
• D
  7% (3)

Explanation

Positional arguments (option A) are named exactly for what they do: the position of each argument in a function call determines which parameter it maps to. For example, greet("Alice", 25) passes "Alice" as the first parameter and 25 as the second, purely based on their order.

Options B ("sequential") and C/D ("ordered") are close in meaning but are not established programming terms for this concept - they describe a general sense of ordering but lack the precise technical meaning. The field specifically uses "positional" to distinguish this approach from keyword arguments, where you name the parameter explicitly (e.g., greet(name="Alice", age=25)) so order doesn't matter.

Memory tip: Think of a position in a line - the first person maps to the first spot, the second to the second. "Positional" literally tells you where each argument lands, which is exactly how the term works in code.

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