The weight of a randomly selected cookie from a production line can most likely be modeled by which of the following distributions?
A) normal distribution
B) exponential distribution
C) hypergeometric distribution
D) Poisson distribution

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The weight of a cookie is a continuous variable and the normal distribution is commonly used to model continuous variables. The weight of the cookie is also likely to follow a bell-shaped curve, which is a characteristic of the normal distribution.

The Weight of a Randomly Selected Cookie from a Production