Variable Declaration Exercise

Write an appropriate Visual Basic declaration statement to define variables to store the following information. Be sure to use appropriate prefixes. I have completed the firs one for you.

Variable Name should begin with a three character lowercase prefix which identifies the data type that will be used followed by a descriptive name that begins with an uppercase character.

Information	Declaration
1. Age	Dim intAge as Integer
2. Address	Dim strAddress as String
3. FICA tax withheld	Dim decFICA as Decimal FICA tax withheld is a dollar amount which is usually something like 25.45. Because of the cents it must be stored in a floating point data type, like Decimal.
4. GPA	Dim decGPA as Decimal GPA (Grade Point Average) is on a scale of 1 to 4 or 5 and includes a decimal - like 4.5 is a B+. It must be stored in a floating point data type, like Decimal
5. Marital status	Dim strMarried as String Since Marital Status could be Married, single, widowed, divorced a Boolean data type is probably not sufficient. String would be a better choice
6. End of month flag	Dim blnMonthEnd as Boolean Since this is a flag it should be Boolean
7. Social Security number	Dim strSSNumber as String Since SS# is not a quantity and contains symbols other than numbers it should be declared as a String
9. Telephone number	Dim strPhoneNumber as String Since a phone number is not a quantity and contains symbols other than numbers it should be declared as a String
11. Account closed indicator	Dim blnAcctClose as Boolean Since this variable is an indicates whether an account is closes or not, it should be Boolean
12. Interest rate	Dim decIntrest as Decimal An interest rate is typically a percentage (.0975) and therefore should be stored in a Decimal
13. Number in stock	Dim intStock as Integer Usually the number in stock is a whole number. Short is as appropriate as Integer as long as the inventory does not exceed 32,767