The weight of a randomly selected cookie from a production line can most likely be modeled by which of the following distributions?
A) binomial distribution
B) Poisson distribution
C) normal distribution
D) none of the above

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The weight of a cookie is a continuous variable and the distribution of the weights is likely to follow a normal distribution due to the Central Limit Theorem which applies to independent and identically distributed samples. Hence, the best choice is the Normal distribution.

The Weight of a Randomly Selected Cookie from a Production