What snippet would you insert in the line indicated below to print. The highest number is 10 and the lowest number is 1. to the monitor? ``python data = [10, 2, 1, 7, 5, 6, 4, 3, 9, 8] insert your…

Question

data = [10, 2, 1, 7, 5, 6, 4, 3, 9, 8]
# insert your code here
print(
 'The highest number is {} ' +
 'and the lowest number is {}'.format(high, low)
)

Options

• ANone of the above.
• Bdef find_high_low(nums): nums.sort() return nums[0], nums[-1] high, low = find_high_low(data)
• Cdef find_high_low(nums): nums.sort() return nums[len(nums)], nums[0] high, low = find_high_low(data)
• Ddef find_high_low(nums): nums.sort() return nums[-1], nums[0] high, low = find_high_low(data)

• A
  15% (6)
• B
  8% (3)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  72% (28)

Explanation

Option D correctly returns nums[-1] (highest) and nums[0] (lowest) after sorting - because .sort() arranges the list in ascending order, making the last element (nums[-1]) the maximum (10) and the first (nums[0]) the minimum (1), which correctly populates high and low in that order.

Option B returns nums[0], nums[-1] - the values are swapped relative to D, so high gets 1 and low gets 10, producing the opposite of the desired output.

Option C uses nums[len(nums)] as the first index, which is always one position past the last valid index (for a 10-element list, index 10 doesn't exist), causing an IndexError at runtime.

Option A is eliminated because D works correctly.

Memory tip: After an ascending .sort(), picture the list climbing uphill - the last index (-1) is at the peak (highest), and index 0 is at the bottom (lowest). Return them in the same order your variables expect: high first, low second.

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