When you are in a situation of having to create hundreds of variables to store hundreds of values, what is the solution for your development of an application to address this situation? Include a definition of all key relevant associated terms in your response.

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The solution to developing applications with larger amounts of data is to use an array. An array variable is simply a variable that can store more than one value. In fact, in Visual Basic, an array can hold more than a million values. Each individual item in an array that contains a value is called an element. Arrays provide access to data by using a numeric index, or subscript, to identify each element in the array. Using an array, you can store a sequence of values of similar data type. For example, you can store six values of type Decimal without having to declare six different variables. Instead, each of the six values is stored in an individual element of the array, and you refer to each element according to its index within the array. The index used to reference a value in the first element within an array is zero. Each subsequent element is referenced by an increasing index value.