A study was done on the campus of a major state institution to measure attitudes of students to-wards the recent fee increase.One question asks respondents to rank the five fees they are willing to pay from 1=most willing to 5=least willing.This is scaled as a(n)
A)nominal scale.
B)ordinal scale.
C)interval scale.
D)ratio scale.
E)None of these are correct.

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The ranking of the fees from most willing to least willing represents an ordinal scale because the responses will be in a specific order, but the distances between responses are not necessarily equal or meaningful. Therefore, it is not an interval or ratio scale. It is also not a nominal scale because there is a specific order to the responses.

A Study Was Done on the Campus of a Major