A Professor Receives, on Average, 24

question 20

Multiple Choice

A professor receives, on average, 24.7 e-mails from students the day before the midterm exam. To compute the probability of receiving at least 10 e-mails on such a day, he will use what type of probability distribution?

• A) Poisson distribution
• B) hypergeometric distribution
• C) binomial distribution
• D) none of the above

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