You develop a Python application for your company. A list named employees contains 200 employee names, the last five being company management. You need to slice the list to display all employees…

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Options

• Aemployees[1:-5]
• Bemployees[0:-5]
• Cemployees[:-5]
• Demployees[0:-4]
• Eemployees[1:-4]

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  74% (25)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  15% (5)
• E
  6% (2)

Explanation

Option B (employees[0:-5]) correctly slices from index 0 (the first employee) up to, but not including, the last 5 elements (management), returning all 195 non-management employees. However, this is a "choose two" question - C (employees[:-5]) is equally correct, since omitting the start index defaults to 0, making it functionally identical to B.

Why the others are wrong:

• A (employees[1:-5]) starts at index 1, accidentally skipping the very first employee.
• D (employees[0:-4]) stops 4 from the end instead of 5, so it includes one manager.
• E (employees[1:-4]) makes both mistakes: skips the first employee and includes one manager.

Memory tip: Think of negative indices as counting backwards from the end - -5 means "stop before the last 5." When you want the full front of a list, omitting the start ([:-5]) and using 0 as the start ([0:-5]) are interchangeable in Python, so both B and C are valid.

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