Which distribution is most nearly appropriate to describe the number of fatalities in Texas in a given year due to poisonous snakebites?
A)Binomial
B)Poisson
C)Hypergeometric
D)Uniform

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The Poisson distribution is appropriate for modeling rare events that occur independently in space or time. Fatalities due to poisonous snakebites are rare events and can be modeled using the Poisson distribution. The other distributions listed (binomial, hypergeometric, and uniform) are not appropriate for this situation.

Which Distribution Is Most Nearly Appropriate to Describe the Number