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

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

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.

ans.

heterothermic organisms include those organisms that can switch between homeothermic (having body temperature higher than environment) and poikilothermic (having variation in internal body temperature) strategies.

some migratory birds show heterothermy as they decrease their metabolic rate during cold nights to keep their body temperature low. drop in metabolic rate allows increase in production efficiency of birds that reduces the internal body temperature to make it equal to external cold temperature during cold nights.

thus, the correct answer is 'birds allow their temperature drop in order to increase their production efficiency.'

turnover

the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period.