The distribution of the number of phone calls to a doctor's office in a one-hour time period is likely to be described by a binomial distribution.

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The binomial distribution applies to independent and identically distributed random variables, where there are a fixed number of trials and the outcomes are binary (success/failure). The number of phone calls to a doctor's office in a one-hour time period is not a binary outcome and may not be independent or identically distributed, making it unlikely to fit a binomial distribution. A more appropriate distribution could be Poisson or normal.

The Distribution of the Number of Phone Calls to a Doctor's