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This question is to test your ability to use list comprehensions in Python.

You’ll need to understand how to apply conditions and transformations within a list comprehension.

It is an easy question.

Question: List Comprehension

Given the list numbers = [1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20], which of the following correctly generates a new list containing only the even numbers from the original list, but each number should be squared?

numbers = [1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20]

Option B is the correct answer.

• Explanation: This list comprehension filters the numbers list to include only the even numbers (those for which n % 2 == 0), and then squares each of these even numbers (n*n).
• Result: [16, 64, 100, 784]
• Reason for Correctness: This option correctly performs both required operations: filtering and squaring even numbers.