Rick Irizarry of Irizarry Insurance Company is conducting a survey of potential customers.Age is an important issue in determining life insurance premiums.Rick considers asking for age in the following way: How old are you? ___ years
Rick should consider the type of the measurement scale to be:
A)nominal.
B)ordinal.
C)interval.
D)ratio.
E)categorical.

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The measurement scale for age in years is a ratio scale because it has a true zero point (age 0) and allows for meaningful comparisons of differences and ratios between ages.

Rick Irizarry of Irizarry Insurance Company Is Conducting a Survey