I am taking statistics, but I am confused on how to assign a level of measuremen

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I am taking statistics, but I am confused on how to assign a level of measurement to a sample data. I have decided the data is discrete, but I am unsure what level of measure it is. There are four levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. The data is a list of numbers regarding a "study that was done to explore the number of chocolate bars consumed by 16-year old girls in a month's time." The data is: 56, 46, 12, 62, 39, 24, 59, 51, 39, 52, 28, 41, 10, 64, 27, 0, 34, 5, 55, 32, 42, 24, 14, 63, 1, 63, 52, 58, 52, 26. I need to know what level of measurement this data is and why?

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Ratio level of measurement

EXPLANATION:

Nominal: measuremnt with names

Ordinal: measurement by relative position

Interval: measurement along a scale in which each position is equidistant from one another.

Ratio: Same as interval alongwith 0 also included.

In the above data, the measurement is the number of chocolate bars. So, 0 is also included.

So, the given data is ratio level of measurement.

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