a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female Ge

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a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female Gender is an example of the 1. In a. ordinal scale nominal scale c. ratio scale d. interval scale 2. Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good, and poor. This is an example of the ordinal scale b. ratio scale c. nominal scale d. interval scale 3. Income is an example of a variable that uses the a ratio scale b. interval scale c. nominal scale d. ordinal scale 4. Qualitative data a. must be numeric b. must be nonnumeric c. cannot be numeric may be either numeric or nonnumeric 5. A statistics professor asked students in a class their ages. On the basis of this information, the professor states that the average age of all the students in the university is 24 years. This is an example of a. a census descriptive statistics c an experiment d. statistical inference

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1. Since there are only two choices: Male or Female and they

can't be ordered, so it is an example of nominal scale.

Hence, Option (b) is the correct choice. (Ans).

2. Since it is a quality which can be ordered, so it is an

example of ordinal scale. Hence, Option (a) is the correct

choice. (Ans).

3. Income uses interval scale. Hence, Option (b) is the correct

choice. (Ans).

4. Qualitative data can be numeric also if the categories are

denoted by numeric figures. Hence, Option (d) is the correct

choice. (Ans).

5. The given experinent is an example of descriptive statistics.

(Ans).

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