Suppose Students Arrive at an Advising Office at a Rate

question 54

Multiple Choice

Suppose students arrive at an advising office at a rate of 30 per hour.Which of the following distributions would you use to determine the probability that the next two students will arrive 30 minutes apart?

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

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