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.
Answer: B) The ratio scale will now become an ordinal scale.