Which of these is most likely to have a binomial model?
A) The colors of the cars in the grocery store parking lot
B) The number of people we survey until we find someone who owns an iPod.
C) The number of hits a baseball player gets in 6 times at bat.
D) The number of cards drawn from a deck until we find all four aces.
E) The number of black cards in a 10-card hand.

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The number of hits a baseball player gets in 6 times at bat can be modeled by a binomial distribution because there are a fixed number of trials (6 times at bat), each trial has only two outcomes (hit or no hit), and the probability of a hit remains constant for each at bat.

Which of These Is Most Likely to Have a Binomial