[SOLVED] Please, could you explain how the answer is 35 in this code lines? I think, it must be 42. (6*7)

Question

int a = 5, b, c;
b = (a++);
c = (++a);
cout << b *c;

Answer 1

b=5 //"++" after operand is post increment. post increment means value of a will increase after the current statement is evaluated.

c=7

Answer 2

Because a++ is post increment first it will assign value of a to b then it will do increment of 1 in a

Answer 3

7*5= 35
b will be assigned 5
c will be assigned 7

Answer 4

Thanks for the comments!
Abhay
Saurabh Kumar Yadav
Prerna 💞

Answer 5

int a=5,b,c;
b=(a++); // b= 5
c=(++a); // c= 7
cout<<b*c // 5*7=35