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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Base 54

The SAS data sets WORK.EMPLOYEE and WORK.SALARY are listed below:

WORK.EMPLOYEE
fname age

Bruce 30
Dan 40

WORK.SALARY
 fname salary

 Bruce 25000
 Bruce 35000
 Dan 25000

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.empdata;
merge work.employee work.salary;
by fname;
totsal + salary;
run;

How many variables are output to the WORK.EMPDATA data set?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. No variables are output to the data set as the program fails to execute due to errors.

11 comments:

SASGuru said...

Answer: B

Name age salary totsal
Bruce 30 25000 25000
Bruce 30 35000 60000
Dan 40 25000 85000

pal said...

its A

siva said...

Answer A

phani said...

The answer is A

Vikas said...

Correct answer is B (4 observations).

Data Employee;
Input name $ age;
Datalines;
Bruce 30
Dan 40
;

Data SALARY;
infile datalines truncover;
Input name $ salary ;
Datalines;
Bruce 40000
Bruce 35000
Dan 37000
Dan
;


data work.empsalary;
merge work.employee (in = inemp)
work.salary (in = insal);
by name;
if inemp and insal;
run;

proc print data = empsalary;
run;

Vikas said...

4 variables

Unknown said...

SAS GURU IS right....answer is 4

GURU Of SAS GURU....

Unknown said...

The answer is 4. The confusion is arising because the question is asking how many VARIABLES are in the output dataset, not how many OBSERVATIONS.

Unknown said...

it is asking for variables and not observations
so answer is B 4 variables

Anonymous said...

FNAME, AGE, SALARY AND TOTSAL(NEW VARIABLE CREATED) = 4 VARIABLES.

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