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	Question Mark Operator It is a conditional statement – allow for selective execution of portions of the program according to the Boolean expression similar to if statements if (a > b) { max = a; } else { max = b; } consider the above if-else statement the condition is a Boolean expression – must evaluate to a true or false if the condition is true, the statements in the curly brackets after the ‘if’ statement is run if the condition is false, the statements following the ‘else’ is run the following statement performs the same functions as the if-else statement max = (a > b) ? a : b; question mark operator was devised as a shortcut for if-else statements with a single condition it is a statement in which one of the two values – a or b – after the “?” is returned the value returned is dependent on the conditional test, (a > b) if the condition is true, the first value is returned if the condition is false, the second value is returned General formula Variable = (Boolean expression) ? value if true : value if false;