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How much storage is occupied for COMP data items of 5 through 9 range

  1. 2

  2. 4

  3. 8

  4. 5
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Explanation

In COBOL, COMP (computational) data items use binary representation. For digits in the 5-9 range, the storage allocated is 4 bytes (halfword or fullword depending on implementation). This is based on the standard COMP storage allocation rules where the number of bytes depends on the expected range of values.

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