Consider a Study Testing Whether Birds Were Equally Likely to Rest

Multiple Choice

Consider a study testing whether birds were equally likely to rest on each streetlight. Researchers surveyed 30 randomly chosen streetlights in a city known to have many birds and counted the number of birds resting on each streetlight. Data on the number of birds seen on the lights are shown. (Note: No lights had more than three birds.) What is the variance for the number of birds observed on each light?
?
$\begin{array}{|cc|}\hline \begin{array}{l}\text { Number } \\\underline {\text { birds }}\end{array} & \begin{array}{l}\text { Number } \\\underline {\text { of lights }}\end{array} \\0 & 2 \\1 & 16 \\2 & 10 \\\geq 3 & 2 \\\hline\end{array}$

A) 0.32
B) 0.52
C) 0.72
D) 0.92