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This question challenges you to consider how Python handles list and set operations.

You’ll need to understand how sets work to remove duplicates and how sorting a collection transforms its order.

Let’s see how well you grasp these concepts!

Question: Python’s List and Set Operations

Given the following Python code, what will be the output and why?

numbers = [4, 6, 2, 8, 6, 2, 9, 1]
unique_sorted_numbers = sorted(set(numbers))
print(unique_sorted_numbers)

Answer: B

Explanation:

1. Converting numbers to a set removes duplicates, resulting in {1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9} (note that sets are unordered collections of unique elements).
2. Sorting this set gives the list [1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9].