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What is a characteristic of assembly language?.
- A.It uses symbolic instructions and is close to machine code
- B.It is unrelated to the instructions executed by a processor
- C.It is always written using natural-language paragraphs
- D.It is a type of imperative high-level language
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- It uses symbolic instructions and is close to machine code
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Assembly language uses symbolic representations of low-level instructions. It remains close to machine code, so it is classified as low-level rather than high-level.
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