Fix the Bug: Letter Counter

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Imagine you're a teacher with 30 students. You need to print a report card for each one. Would you write 30 separate print statements? Of course not. You'd tell the computer: "for each student, print their report card." That's exactly what a for loop does.

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This code is supposed to count how many times the letter "l" appears in the word "hello world", but it has bugs. Fix the code so it prints:

The letter "l" appears 3 times

Don't change the word variable or the final print statement - just fix the loop logic.

word = "hello world"

count = 0

for char in word:

if char == "L":

count = 1

print(f'The letter "l" appears {count} times')

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