Sandra Catrioni Is a Research Analyst at Spellman Research Associates

Multiple Choice

Sandra Catrioni is a research analyst at Spellman Research Associates.She has just completed a study of customers for Brennan's,a department store in Tulsa,Oklahoma.She asked the question,"How much do you believe you spend on an average trip to a department store?" She realizes that the type of measurement scale is ratio.However,for her client's presentation,she wants to create categories of the answers and put them in a bar chart.The categories will be of unequal amounts.The first category will be "Less than $10" and the second category will be "$10 to $25," and so on.What effect will this have on the type of measurement scale she will be using with the new variable for the categories she created?

A) Nothing;once a ratio scale,always a ratio scale.
B) The ratio scale will now become an ordinal scale.
C) The ratio scale will not become an interval scale.
D) The ratio scale will become a nominal scale.
E) The ratio scale will become a bar chart scale.