Multiple choice technology programming languages

How many types of variables does SAS recognize?

  1. Date variable

  2. Date , Character and Numeric varibale

  3. Date and Character variable

  4. Character and Numeric variable
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D Correct answer
Explanation

SAS recognizes only character and numeric variables. Although date variables are commonly used in practice, SAS stores dates internally as numeric values representing days since January 1, 1960. Thus, there is no distinct date type, making the character and numeric option the only correct classification.

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