SCENARIO 1-1 The Manager of the Customer Service Division of a Major

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Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 1-1
The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products.
-Referring to Scenario 1-1,the possible responses to the question "How many people are there in your household?" 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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Definitions:

Interference Competition

A direct form of competition where organisms physically prevent their rivals from accessing resources.

Exploitative Competition

A form of competition where organisms indirectly interact with each other by consuming scarce resources.

Scavenging

The act of consuming dead or decaying organic matter, a process carried out by certain animals, fungi, and microorganisms, which helps recycle nutrients in ecosystems.

Resource

Any physical or virtual entity of limited availability that needs to be consumed to obtain a benefit from it, often considered in the context of natural resources or economic assets.