An if selection statement executes if and only if:

A) the Boolean condition evaluates to false.
B) the Boolean condition evaluates to true.
C) the Boolean condition is short-circuited.
D) none of the above.

An if selection statement executes only if the Boolean condition evaluates to true. If the condition evaluates to false, the statement block following the if statement is simply skipped. Short-circuiting refers to the behavior of logical operators (such as && and ||) in which the second operand is evaluated only if the first operand does not determine the result. However, this is not directly related to the behavior of an if selection statement.