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# Write one for loop to print out each element of the list several_things.
# Then, write another for loop to print out the TYPE of each element of the list several_things.
# To complete this problem you should have written two different for loops,
# each of which iterates over the list several_things, but each of those 2 for loops should have a different result.

several_things = ["hello", 2, 4, 6.0, 7.5, 234352354, "the end", "", 99]

for i in range(len(several_things)):
    print(several_things[i])
    

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# Write code that uses iteration to print out the length of each element of the list stored in str_list.

str_list = ["hello", "", "goodbye", "wonderful", "I love Python"]

# Write your code here.
for i in range(len(str_list)):
    print(len(str_list[i]))

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# Write code to count the number of characters in original_str using the accumulation pattern and assign the answer to a variable num_chars.
# Do NOT use the len function to solve the problem (if you use it while you are working on this problem, comment it out afterward!)

original_str = "The quick brown rhino jumped over the extremely lazy fox."
num_chars = 0

for i in original_str:
    num_chars = num_chars + 1
    print(num_chars)

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# addition_str is a string with a list of numbers separated by the + sign.
# Write code that uses the accumulation pattern to take the sum of all of the numbers and assigns it to sum_val (an integer).
# (You should use the .split("+") function to split by "+" and int() to cast to an integer).

addition_str = "2+5+10+20"
sum_val = 0

for i in addition_str:
    sum_val = sum(map(int,addition_str.split("+")))
    print(sum_val)

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# week_temps_f is a string with a list of fahrenheit temperatures separated by the , sign.
# Write code that uses the accumulation pattern to compute the average (sum divided by number of items) and assigns it to avg_temp.
# Do not hard code your answer (i.e., make your code compute both the sum or the number of items in week_temps_f)
# (You should use the .split(",") function to split by "," and float() to cast to a float).

week_temps_f = "75.1,77.7,83.2,82.5,81.0,79.5,85.7"

avg_temp = 0.0

for i in week_temps_f:

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# 1. At the halfway point during the Rio Olympics, the United States had 70 medals, Great Britain had 38 medals, China had 45 medals, Russia had 30 medals, and Germany had 17 medals. Create a dictionary assigned to the variable medal_count with the country names as the keys and the number of medals the country had as each key’s value.

medal_count = {'United States': 70, 'Great Britain': 38, 'China': 45, 'Russia': 30, 'Germany': 17}
print(medal_count)

# 2. Given the dictionary swimmers, add an additional key-value pair to the dictionary with "Phelps" as the key and the integer 23 as the value. Do not rewrite the entire dictionary.

swimmers = {'Manuel':4, 'Lochte':12, 'Adrian':7, 'Ledecky':5, 'Dirado':4}
swimmers['Phelps'] = 23
print(swimmers)

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# 1. Write code to add ‘horseback riding’ to the third position (i.e., right before volleyball) in the list sports.

sports = ['cricket', 'football', 'volleyball', 'baseball', 'softball', 'track and field', 'curling', 'ping pong', 'hockey']
sports.insert(2, 'horseback riding')

# 2. Write code to take ‘London’ out of the list trav_dest.

trav_dest = ['Beirut', 'Milan', 'Pittsburgh', 'Buenos Aires', 'Nairobi', 'Kathmandu', 'Osaka', 'London', 'Melbourne']
trav_dest.pop(7)

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# Write code to create a list of numbers from 0 to 67 and assign that list to the variable nums. Do not hard code the list.

nums = list(range(0, 68))
print(nums)

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# Write code to create a list of word lengths for the words in original_str,
# using the accumulation pattern and assign the answer to a variable num_words_list.
# (You should use the len function).

original_str = "The quick brown rhino jumped over the extremely lazy fox"

original_list = list(original_str.split())
num_words = len(original_list)
num_words_list = []
for i in original_list: