A mid-priced chain of hotels strives to make its guests feel at home by providing amenities such as microwaves in every room. comment cards are used to get feedback on the importance of such amenities by asking guests to rate them using the scale: "essential," "important," and "not important." what type of data is being collected?

Quantitative and ordinal

Explanation:

Quantitative data is the information that is used for measuring the values in the form of numeric digits. It is usually represented by symbol, code, name etc to give result about the type of any component.

Ordinal data is the data that is based on statistical approach in which the information is displayed in a certain series or order.

The comment card are having rating named with important, non-important and essential which measures the value of the amenities and the orderly organized in the sequence to determine the necessity of the those items.