A survey question asking voters which political party they are affiliated with (democrat, republican, independent) would be considered:

a. ratio scale

b. mutually exclusive

c. ordinal scale

d. interchangeable

e. exhaustive

A survey question asking voters which political party they are affiliated with (democrat, republican, independent) would be considered mutually exclusive or nominal scale. This type of questions talk about labels or names, mainly used for labeling variables that don’t have any quantitative value.