The distribution for the number of emergency calls to a city's 911 emergency number in a one-hour time period is likely to be described by a binomial distribution.

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The number of emergency calls to a city's 911 emergency number in a one-hour time period is better described by a Poisson distribution, as it deals with the number of events happening in a fixed interval of time and space where these events occur independently.

The Distribution for the Number of Emergency Calls to a City's