Question

Which of the following is true? Select one: The type of charge card used by a customer (Visa, MasterCard, AmEx) is ordinal data. The duration (minutes) of a flight from Boston to Minneapolis is ratio data. The number of Nobel Prize-winning faculty at Oxnard University is continuous data. The number of regional warehouses owned by Jankord Industries is ordinal data.

Answer 1

B. The duration (minutes) of a flight from Boston to Minneapolis is ratio data.

Explanation:

The correct answer is :

B. The duration (minutes) of a flight from Boston to Minneapolis is ratio data.

Ratio data cannot have a negative numerical value.

The ratio data has same properties like interval data where there is equal ratio between each data and absolute zero or a point of origin. The zero exists as a reference point so ratios have meaning.