> my answer was 160, but according to the book, the answer is 120. I thought
> (and it says in Forta's book) that a copy of a structure is just a pointer
> to the original so that if you change the copy, you change the
> original. Am
> i missing something here? Can someone explain? Thanks for any help.

You're right that copies of a struct created using the assignment operator
are simply pointers but the structCopy() function makes a deep duplicate of
the struct that is in its own memory space and is not just a pointer to the
original struct.

So in the example from the exam the two structs are different entities
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