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Consider the following Java statements.              Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);              float radius = input.nextFloat();              double area; Which of the variables in this piece of code are reference variables?

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Consider the following Java statements.              Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);              float radius = input.nextFloat();              double area; Which of the variables in this piece of code are reference variables?

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In the given Java code, the variable that is a reference variable is "input". This is because it is an instance of the Scanner class. In Java, all non-primitive types (i.e., objects) are reference types, so they are referred to as reference variables.

On the other hand, "radius" and "area" are primitive variables, not reference variables. The "radius" variable is of float type and the "area" variable is of double type. These are primitive data types in Java, not objects, so they are not reference variables.

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