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while loop mystery

Language/Type: Java method basics mod mystery while loops
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2010/12/28)

Given the following method: 

public static void whileMystery(int x, int y) {
    int z = 0;
    while (x % y != 0) {
        x = x / y;
        z++;
        System.out.print(x + ", ");
    }

    System.out.println(z);
}

Write the output of each of the following calls.

whileMystery(25, 2);
whileMystery(32, 4);
whileMystery(10345, 10);
whileMystery(63, 2);

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