______ data are arbitrarily assigned a number to represent each variable, but ______ data are assigned numbers that are no longer arbitrary and have some sort of quantitative meaning.
A) Ordinal; nominal
B) Nominal; ordinal
C) Nominal; interval
D) Interval; nominal

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Nominal data are indeed arbitrarily assigned a number to represent each variable, essentially categorizing without implying any order. Ordinal data, on the other hand, are assigned numbers that represent the order of the variables, implying a hierarchy or ranking among them, thus having more quantitative meaning than nominal data.

______ Data Are Arbitrarily Assigned a Number to Represent Each