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A
variable can be thought of as a “named container”
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Variables
name computer memory locations, so the value of a
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variable
is the quantity stored in its memory
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Variables
can take on different types of values
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Whole
numbers or integers: 2, -9, 1048576
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Character
sequences or strings: “2”, “&^%$#@”, “ ”
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Floating
point numbers or doubles: 2.0, 3.14159, -999.99
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(numbers that can have some digits after the
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decimal point)
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A
variable’s values have a specific type
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Variables
are declared and their type is specified
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Dim averageOverClass As Double
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