Consider the code for the recursive method mystery shown in this code snippet: What will be printed by the statement System.out.println(mystery(-4));?
A)Nothing - a StackoverflowError exception will occur
B)0
C)-22
D)-10

Question

Consider the code for the recursive method mystery shown in this code snippet:  What will be printed by the statement System.out.println(mystery(-4));? 
A)Nothing - a StackoverflowError exception will occur 
B)0 
C)-22 
D)-10

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The given recursive method does not have a base case, which means it will continue to call itself indefinitely until a StackOverflowError occurs. Therefore, the statement System.out.println(mystery(-4)); will result in a StackOverflowError exception and nothing will be printed.

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