The following image shows 4 boxes containing different balls labelled by numbers between 1 and 9. The boxes are used in a lottery to determine a winning combination of 4 numbers by drawing one ball from each box. To enter the lottery, participants write 4 numbers between 1 and 9 on their ticket in nondecreasing order (from smallest to largest). A ticket wins if all its numbers are drawn in the lottery. The order in which the numbers are drawn does not matter. For example, if the drawing is (5, 5, 1, 7), then a ticket with the numbers (1, 5, 5, 7) wins (the numbers are the same, albeit in a different order), but a ticket with the numbers (1, 5, 6, 7) loses. Construct a list of all valid tickets, i.e., all tickets that can potentially be drawn in the lottery, and store it in the variable possible_tickets. The tickets should be specified as tuples of 4 numbers in nondecreasing order, and every valid ticket should appear exactly one time in the list possible_tickets. (Note, however, that some numbers may occur more than once on a single ticket, as in the above example.)
Control structures
Control structures are block of statements that analyze the value of variables and determine the flow of execution based on those values. When a program is running, the CPU executes the code line by line. After sometime, the program reaches the point where it has to make a decision on whether it has to go to another part of the code or repeat execution of certain part of the code. These results affect the flow of the program's code and these are called control structures.
Switch Statement
The switch statement is a key feature that is used by the programmers a lot in the world of programming and coding, as well as in information technology in general. The switch statement is a selection control mechanism that allows the variable value to change the order of the individual statements in the software execution via search.
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