Classification of Foods into Categories of Salty, Bitter, and Sweet

question 34

Multiple Choice

Classification of foods into categories of salty, bitter, and sweet constitutes what kind of scale?

• A) nominal
• B) ordinal
• C) interval
• D) ratio

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