The number of cars passing through an intersection in the next five minutes can usually be described by the
A)normal distribution.
B)uniform distribution.
C)exponential distribution.
D)Poisson distribution.
E)None of the above

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The Poisson distribution is commonly used to model the number of occurrences of rare events over a specific time or area, such as the number of cars passing through an intersection in a given time period. Therefore, the best choice for this scenario is the Poisson distribution.

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