What type of probability distribution will most likely be used to analyze the number of blue chocolate chips per bag in the following problem?
The quality control manager of a candy plant is inspecting a batch of chocolate chip bags.
When the production process is in control, the mean number of blue chocolate chips per bag
Is 6.0. The manager is interested in analyzing the probability that any particular bag being
Inspected has fewer than 5.0 blue chocolate chips.
A) binomial distribution.
B) Poisson distribution.
C) hypergeometric distribution.
D) none of the above.

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The Poisson distribution is appropriate for modeling the number of events (blue chocolate chips) in a fixed interval (per bag) when these events occur with a known constant mean rate (6.0) and independently of the time since the last event.

What Type of Probability Distribution Will Most Likely Be Used