When the patient is asked to evaluate his pain on a scale of 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain), he reports to the evaluating clinician that his pain is an 8. After the administration of sublingual nitroglycerin and high-flow oxygen, the patient reports that the pain is now a 4 on the same scale. After the administration of morphine sulfate, given as an intravenous push, the pain is gone. This commonly applied scale is a:


>Ratio scale


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