Scale of Measurement

  1. The following are the weekly amounts of welfare payments made by the federal government to a sample of six families: $139, $136, $130, $136, $147 and $136. What is the range?
    Answer

$0

$14

$52

$17

2 . A disadvantage of using an arithmetic mean to summarize a set of data is
Answer

The arithmetic mean   sometimes has two values.

It can be used for   interval and ratio data.

It is always different   from the median.

It can be biased by   one or two extremely small or large values.

3 . What level of measurement is the price of an admission ticket to a movie theater?
Answer

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

4 . A survey includes a question regarding marital status that has the following responses: single, married, divorced, separated or widowed. What is the scale of measurement for this question?
Answer

Ratio

Interval

Ordinal

Nominal

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