Multiple Choice
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, approximately 7% of U.S. children 4 years of age or younger have a food allergy. A day care program has capacity for 8 children in that age range. Assume that the children attending the day care program are independent. Let the random variable X be the number of children in this day care who have a food allergy.
Which distribution does X follow?
A) Normal distribution with mean 8 and variance 0.07
B) Binomial distribution with n = 8 and p = 0.07
C) Binomial distribution with n = 8 and p = 0.93
D) Poisson distribution with mean and variance 0.07
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