The given code utilizes the assert statement to validate the condition that the denominator b is greater than or equal to 1. In the code, b is assigned the value -1, which violates this condition. When assertions are enabled using the -ea (enable assertions) option, the JVM evaluates assert statements, and if the condition in the assert statement is false, it throws an AssertionError. Therefore, the program will throw an AssertionError with the message 'Invalid Denominator' when run with the -ea option.
The correct answer involves defining the fly method to accept a Supplier of Bird objects. A Supplier is a functional interface that supplies objects of a given type. In this case, it seamlessly handles both Bird and Penguin instances. The correct fly method syntax is static void fly(Supplier
To enable the code to compile, two modifications are necessary. First, in 'Rectangle' class, when calling the superclass constructor, the correct modification is to insert 'super(x);' at line 17. This is because the 'Square' class does not have a no-argument constructor and requires 'side' to be initialized. Secondly, the 'area' method in 'Rectangle' class must match the access level of the method it overrides from its superclass to maintain visibility. Therefore, 'public' should be used before 'void area()' at line 20.
The program utilizes the ForkJoin framework with a threshold to decide whether to compute the sum directly or to fork into smaller subtasks. Given the threshold size, the sum operation is divided among several tasks, and each task computes a partial sum and prints it. Therefore, the program prints several values that, when totaled, amount to 55.
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