In Exercises 21–28, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) best describes the given data.
Movie Ratings In a college film studies course, students rate ten documentaries using a scale of 0 to 5 stars.

In Exercises 13–20, determine whether the data are from a discrete or continuous data set.

Fraud Detection While monitoring Internet traffic in order to detect fraudulent activity, a researcher records the interarrival times (sec) between incoming Internet queries.

In Exercises 13–20, determine whether the data are from a discrete or continuous data set.

Students Your statistics professor records the number of students who pass each of her courses.

In Exercises 13–20, determine whether the data are from a discrete or continuous data set.

Statistics Classes In each of her classes, a statistics professor records the number of students who earned a grade of A.

In Exercises 21–28, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) best describes the given data.

College Students In order to better plan for the incoming freshman class, a college dean asks each newly admitted student to identify their likely major (physics, business, math, psychology, engineering, law, etc.).

In Exercises 21–28, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) best describes the given data.

Criminology In a criminology study, the lengths of prison sentences are obtained for randomly selected subjects convicted of auto theft.

In Exercises 21–28, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) best describes the given data.

Areas of States A data set consists of the areas of each of the 50 United States.

In Exercises 29–32, identify the level of measurement of the data as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. Also, explain what is wrong with the given calculation.

Social Security Numbers As part of a project in a statistics class, students report the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, and the average (mean) of those digits is computed to be 4.7.

Countable For each of the following, categorize the nature of the data using one of these three descriptions: (1) discrete because the number of possible values is finite; (2) discrete because the number of possible values is infinite but countable; (3) continuous because the number of possible values is infinite and not countable.

a. Exact lengths of the feet of members of the band the Monkees