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In a Survey for ACME Power Co

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In a survey for ACME Power Co., the researcher asked the following questions: "What is your gender? Male-Female" and "How much do you estimate your monthly electric bill to be? $________." How would you classify, in order, these two questions in terms of the type of scale each represents?

Definitions:

Source Program

The original code written by a programmer in a high-level programming language before it is compiled or interpreted.

Assembly Language

Assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer, or other programmable device, where there is a very strong correspondence between the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.

Structured Design

A fundamental approach in software engineering where the structure of systems is based on the subdivision of problems into smaller problems.

Subproblems

Smaller parts of a larger problem, often used in dynamic programming and divide-and-conquer strategies to simplify complex problems.