The local police department is interested in estimating the number of cars that fail to stop at a stop sign during a specified lunch hour.Which probability distribution should they use?
A)Binomial distribution
B)Poisson distribution
C)Normal distribution
D)Uniform distribution

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The Poisson distribution is appropriate for estimating the number of times an event happens in a fixed interval of time or space, such as cars failing to stop at a stop sign during a specified hour, when these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

The Local Police Department Is Interested in Estimating the Number