Question

Duran Company is a manufacturer of men's shirts. It distributes weekly sales reports to each sales manager. The quantity 2R5 appeared in the quantity sold column for one of the items on the report for one of the sales managers. The most likely explanation for what has occurred is that the

Answer 1

The program did not contain a data checking routine for input data.

Step-by-step explanation:

Data validation or data checking is the process by which data undergoes cleansing to ensure data quality.

Data that is checked is useful and correct.

When data is inputted into a program check for correctness and meaningfulness for that particular field.

In the given scenario the value that should appear in the quantity sold column should be a number. Alphabets cannot be used as value of quantity.

So the program does not have data checking routine that is why it accepted the value 2R5.