Suppose that past history shows that 6% of college students prefer Brand A Cola. A sample of 10,000 students is to be selected. Which of the following distributions would you use to figure out the probability that at least half of them will prefer Brand A cola?
A) hypergeometric distribution
B) uniform distribution
C) exponential distribution
D) Poisson distribution

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The Poisson distribution is used for modeling the number of events in a fixed interval of time or space, and it can approximate the binomial distribution when the number of trials is large and the probability of success is small, which fits this scenario.

Suppose That Past History Shows That 6% of College Students