At the beginning of the season,a sports writer gives her prediction of teams that will finish in the top three places in the eastern,central,and western divisions.Her prediction would be an example of using which type of measurement scale?

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The writer's prediction ranks the teams in order from first to third place, which represents an ordinal measurement scale. The names of the divisions themselves are nominal, but the ranking of the teams within each division is ordinal. Interval and ratio scales involve equal intervals or ratios between values, which do not apply in this scenario.

At the Beginning of the Season,a Sports Writer Gives Her