What type of probability distribution will most likely be used to analyse the number of chocolate chip parts per biscuit in the following problem? The quality control manager of Marilyn's Biscuits is inspecting a batch of chocolate chip biscuits.When the production process is in control,the average number of chocolate chip parts per biscuit is 6.0.The manager is interested in analysing the probability that any particular biscuit being inspected has fewer than 5.0 chip parts.
A) Binomial distribution.
B) Poisson distribution.
C) Hypergeometric distribution.
D) None of the above.

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The problem involves analyzing the probability of a certain number of occurrences (number of chocolate chip parts) in a given interval (per biscuit). The average number of occurrences per interval is given as 6, which is typical of a Poisson distribution. Moreover, the Poisson distribution is commonly used for count data and the number of chocolate chip parts per biscuit can be considered as count data. Therefore, the Poisson distribution is the best choice for analyzing the number of chocolate chip parts per biscuit in this problem.

What Type of Probability Distribution Will Most Likely Be Used