In a Survey for ACME Electric Co

Multiple Choice

In a survey for ACME Electric Co., Ralph Thomas asks the following questions: "What is your gender? Male-Female" and "How much do you estimate your monthly electric bill to be? $________." In the first question regarding gender, the answers are composed of a small number of distinct values or categories. In the second question, the answers are composed of numbers that have an "underlying measurement continuum." How would you classify these two questions in terms of the type of scale each represents?

A) closed ended, scaled response
B) closed ended, semantic dollar scale
C) categorical, meteorological
D) categorical, metric
E) closed ended, metric