What Type of Probability Distribution Will Most Likely Be Used

question 31

Multiple Choice

What type of probability distribution will most likely be used to analyze the number of blue
Chocolate chips per bag in the following problem?
The quality control manager of a candy plant is inspecting a batch of chocolate chip bags.
When the production process is in control, the mean number of blue chocolate chips per bag
Is 6.0.The manager is interested in analyzing the probability that any particular bag being
Inspected has fewer than 5.0 blue chocolate chips.

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

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