Arizona State University (ASU) CSE110 Principles of Programming Exam 1 Practice

In Java, when you divide two integers, the result is also an integer. This means that any fractional part of the division is truncated, rather than rounded. In the expression 15 / 4, both 15 and 4 are integers. The division operation here results in 3, as 4 goes into 15 three times with a remainder, but since the operation is performed with integer division, the remainder is discarded. This behavior is a key characteristic of integer arithmetic in Java, which is different from floating-point arithmetic that would yield 3.75 if either operand were a floating-point number. Thus, the output of the expression 15 / 4 will be 3.