Validating age

Now that you found some inconsistencies in the total amounts, you're suspicious that there may also be inconsistencies in the acct_agecolumn, and you want to see if these inconsistencies are related. Using the skills you learned from the video exercise, you'll need to validate the age of each account and see if rows with inconsistent acct_ages are the same ones that had inconsistent totals

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Instructions

Create a new column called theoretical_age that contains the age of each account based on the date_opened.
Find the accounts where the acct_age doesn't match the theoretical_age.

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# Find invalid acct_age
accounts %>%
  # theoretical_age: age of acct based on date_opened
  mutate(theoretical_age = ___) %>%
  # Filter for rows where acct_age is different from theoretical_age
  ___

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Cleaning Data in R

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Exercice en cours

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