A study questionnaire asks age in completed years, but the data entry operator records one participant as 27.5 years. What is the most appropriate data-processing response?

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Check the questionnaire before deciding whether the value is valid

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Treat all ages as missing because age should not contain decimals

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Automatically change 27.5 to 28

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Automatically round every age to the nearest whole number

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