TABLE 1-2 a Wall Street Journal Poll Asked 2,150 Adults in the in the U.S

TABLE 1-2
A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S. a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S. economy.
-Referring to Table 1-2, the possible responses to the question "How satisfied are you with the U.S. economy today with 1 = very satisfied, 2 = moderately satisfied, 3 = neutral, 4 = moderately dissatisfied and 5 = very dissatisfied?" are values from a

A) discrete random variable.
B) continuous random variable.
C) categorical random variable.
D) parameter.