Multiple choice technology programming languages How are numeric and character missing values represented internally in SAS? numeric will be represented by blank and character will be represented by . both character and numeric will be represented as blanks numeric will be represented by . and character will be represented by blank numeric will be represented by . and character will be represented by NULL values Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself C Correct answer Explanation SAS internally represents missing values differently by data type: numeric missing values are stored as a period (.) while character missing values are stored as a blank space. This is fundamental SAS behavior.