A sport shooter shoots from a distance of 10 meter 10 times on a cardboard.On this board the middle circle with 12 points has the highest value,and the outer circle with 1 point the lowest.Shooting next to the board yields 0 points.For every 10 shots the points are counted up to a total score.What scale has this total score if the shooter hits the board every time?
A)Nominal.
B)Ordinal.
C)Interval.
D)Ratio.

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The scale of the total score is ratio, as it has a true zero point (0 points means the shooter missed the board entirely) and the intervals between different scores are equal (the difference between 10 and 20 points is the same as the difference between 20 and 30 points, etc.).

A Sport Shooter Shoots from a Distance of 10 Meter