Assuming that potholes occur randomly along roads, the number of potholes per mile of road could best be described by the:
A) binomial distribution.
B) Poisson distribution.
C) hypergeometric distribution.
D) continuous distribution

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The Poisson distribution is best used to describe the number of times an event occurs in a fixed interval of space or time, such as the number of potholes per mile of road, where events occur independently and the rate at which they occur is constant.

Assuming That Potholes Occur Randomly Along Roads, the Number of Potholes