TABLE 5-9 A Major Hotel Chain Keeps a Record of the Number

Multiple Choice

TABLE 5-9
A major hotel chain keeps a record of the number of mishandled bags per 1,000 customers. In a recent year, the hotel chain had 4.06 mishandled bags per 1,000 customers. Assume that the number of mishandled bags has a Poisson distribution.
-Suppose that past history shows that 6% of college students prefer Brand A Cola. A sample of 10,000 students is to be selected. Which of the following distributions would you use to figure out the probability that at least half of them will prefer Brand A cola?

A) Hypergeometric distribution
B) Poisson distribution
C) Binomial distribution
D) Uniform distribution