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What if we had several different type of parts and we assigned numbers to the different types,
which level of measurement does this meet and why?
Solution
This would be a nominal level of measurement because it just assigns names and
categories to elements without trying to rank or order them. It is categorical rather than
numerical because the numbers have no significance other than to categorize the data.

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