Which of the following is a theoretical distribution?
A) your statistics professor stayed in the residence hall one Friday night and flipped a coin 10,000 times. The number of heads and tails was recorded.
B) The price of every house sold in the last five years in Hampden County was obtained from courthouse records.
C) The number of persons who arrived late was recorded every time a statistics course met during the semester.
D) None of the other alternatives are correct.

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Theoretical distributions are not based on actual data collection or empirical evidence but on mathematical models or assumptions. Choices A, B, and C all involve collecting or observing real-world data, which makes them empirical rather than theoretical distributions.

Which of the Following Is a Theoretical Distribution