True or False: The number of customers arriving at a department store in a 5-minute period has a
binomial distribution.

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A binomial distribution is used for a fixed number of independent trials with two possible outcomes. The number of customers arriving is better modeled by a Poisson distribution, which is used for counting the number of events in a fixed interval of time or space.

True or False: the Number of Customers Arriving at a Department