Categories That Are Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive Make Up

question 9

Multiple Choice

Categories that are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive make up which type of scale?

• A)Rank-order scale
• B)Nominal scale
• C)Ordinal scale
• D)Interval scale
• E)Ratio scale

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Definitions:

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