Answer:

The result of the calculation, 7, is put into the memory for NUMBER. Now the LET statement is finished and the statement following it can execute.

Example LET Statement

Ordinarily you don't need to think about these steps in such detail. Sometimes, however, to understand what is happening you do need to go through the steps one by one. In the following question, try to do the steps one by one (even if you don't have to).

QUESTION 6:

What will the following program print out:

' Example LET statements
LET EXTRA = 5
LET VALUE = 12 + EXTRA
PRINT "The value is:", VALUE
END