Read the example given below and find out the correct choice compatible from among the alternatives : If a professor assigns only letter grades to an exam, we know that a student who receives a grade of 'A' did better than a student who receives a 'B', but we cannot say how much better from that ordinal scale. Nor can we tell whether the difference in preference between an 'A' student and a 'B' student and a 'B' student and a 'C' student.
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This question is on Utility functions and monotonic transformations, part of Consumer preferences and utility in Microeconomics.
How ordinal utility represents preferences, and why any monotonic transformation of a utility function represents the same ones.
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