Sales are a function of three variables: store traffic volume, conversion rate (i.e. percentage of visitors who purchase), and average ticket.

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The Economist has crunched the numbers and found that, based on reasonable assumptions about these three variables, China could overtake America in the next decade.

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It means, instead, that success is governed by four, not three, variables: talent, industriousness, social intelligence, and opportunity.

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The mathematically inclined, inflation has three sub variables: inflation, deflation, and disinflation.

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The three first rank macroeconomic variables critical to economic growth are monetary, tax, and regulatory policy.

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The three aforementioned units can be customized to arrive with a variety of variables, including Unreal Engine 4, Autodesk, and NVIDIA GTX-line GPUs.

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