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Define the following term:
Observations
Solution
Observation is the value at a particular period of a particular variable.
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| Cats |  |
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| Dogs |  |
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| Rabbits |  |
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| Cows |  |
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| Number of two wheelers |
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| 0 | ||| | 3 |
| 1 | `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` ||| | 28 |
| 2 | `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` `cancel(|bb|bb|bb|)` |||| | 14 |
| 3 | |||| | 4 |
| 4 | | | 1 |
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