### A good answer might be:

To make debugging easy.

# Printing Out the Result

Here is the final section of the code.

            . . . . .
            # print the result
            mov.s   $f12,$f2            # $f12 = argument
            li      $v0,2               # print single
            syscall

            la      $a0,newl            # new line
            li      $v0,4               # print string
            syscall

            li      $v0,10              # code 10 == exit
            syscall                     # Return to OS.

            .data
            . . . . .

    blank:  .asciiz " "
    newl:   .asciiz "\n"
            . . . . .

There is nothing new in this code.

### QUESTION 18:

If `x = 0.1` what is `ax2 + bx + c` when `a = b = c = 1`?