In the program below, \(y\) is a positive integer (e.g., 1, 2, 3, ...).

What is the value of result after running the program?

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A good way to do this problem would be to try a value for \(y\), such as \(5\). Running the program:

We will repeat the following procedure 3 times:

For 5 times, we will add 1 to the result.

$$ 0+1+1+1+1+1 = 5 $$

Doing this two more times will result in:

$$ 5+1+1+1+1+1 =10$$ $$ 10+1+1+1+1+1 =15 $$

So when \(y=5\), we obtain a value of \(15\), implying \(3y\).