Answer:
Symbolic names made up by the programmer that represents locations in the computer's RAM
Explanation:
Variables refer to memory location that has a name and holds a value of a particular type.
In most programming langauges a variables must be declared before it can be used in the program. Declaration means giving the variable a name according to some established rules and mentioning its data type. The popular types are integers (whole numbers), floats (floating point) and String(sequence of characters)
Some examples of variables' declarations and initializations are given below
int a = 5; //This declares a variable called a of type integer with a value of 5
float b = 1.2; //This declares a variable called b of type float with a value of 1.2
String name = "David" //This declares a variable called name of type String with a value of David