Question 6 David\'s gasoline station offers 4 cents off per gallon if the custom

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David's gasoline station offers 4 cents off per gallon if the customer pays in cash and does not use a credit card. Past evidence indicates that 40% of all customers pay in cash. During a one-hour period, 15 customers buy gasoline at this station. This situation is an example of what type of discrete probability distribution?

Continuous probability distribution

Poisson probability distribution

Binomial probability distribution

Hypergeometric probability distribution

Continuous probability distribution

Poisson probability distribution

Binomial probability distribution

Hypergeometric probability distribution

Explanation / Answer

Binomial probability distribution is used here because we know that there are two events (trials) i.e a customer pays in cash or not.

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