To answer this question, let's go through each option to understand why it is correct or incorrect:
Option A) Bic
This option is incorrect because the substring method in Java uses a zero-based index. In this case, iBegin is 1 and iEnd is 3. The substring method will return a substring starting from the index specified by iBegin (inclusive) and ending at the index specified by iEnd (exclusive). Therefore, the resulting substring will include the characters at index 1 and 2, which are 'i' and 'c', respectively.
Option B) ic
This option is correct because the substring method will return a substring starting from the index specified by iBegin (inclusive) and ending at the index specified by iEnd (exclusive). In this case, iBegin is 1 and iEnd is 3. Therefore, the resulting substring will include the characters at index 1 and 2, which are 'i' and 'c', respectively.
Option C) icy
This option is incorrect because the substring method will return a substring starting from the index specified by iBegin (inclusive) and ending at the index specified by iEnd (exclusive). In this case, iBegin is 1 and iEnd is 3. Therefore, the resulting substring will include the characters at index 1 and 2, which are 'i' and 'c', respectively. It will not include the character at index 3, which is 'y'.
Option D) error: no method matching substring(int,char)
This option is incorrect because the substring method in Java accepts two integer parameters as arguments - the starting index and the ending index. It does not accept a character as the second argument. Therefore, the code will not compile and will result in a compilation error.
The correct answer is B) ic. This option is correct because the substring method will return a substring starting from the index specified by iBegin (inclusive) and ending at the index specified by iEnd (exclusive), which in this case includes the characters 'i' and 'c'.