Suppose the Probability of Finding a Bark Beetles-Infested Pine Tree

question 177

Multiple Choice

Suppose the probability of finding a bark beetles-infested pine tree is the same anywhere over a piece of 100-acre national forest land. Which of the following distributions would you use to determine the probability of finding a bark beetles-infested pine tree in a piece of 10-acre national forest land?

• A) Normal distribution
• B) Poisson distribution
• C) Uniform distribution
• D) Exponential distribution

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