Arrival of cars per minute at a toll booth may be characterized by the Poisson distribution if:
A)the arrivals are independent.
B)no more than one arrival can occur in a minute.
C)there is only one lane leading to the booth.
D)the mean arrival rate is at least 30.

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The Poisson distribution is used to model the number of events occurring within a fixed interval of time or space if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

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