TABLE 2-1 The Manager of the Customer Service Division of a Major

question 182

Multiple Choice

TABLE 2-1
The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a DVD player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products.
-Referring to Table 2-1, the possible responses to the question "Are you happy, indifferent, or unhappy with the performance per dollar spent on the DVD player?" result in

• A) a nominal scale variable.
• B) an ordinal scale variable.
• C) an interval scale variable.
• D) a ratio scale variable.

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