A pollster working for a certain political candidate is to randomly call 500 persons, and ask if they will vote for this political candidate. The pollster then counts how many of the 500 persons indicate they will vote for said candidate. Identify the probability model that best models this count. A. Uniform distribution B. Binomial distribution C. Poisson distribution D. Normal distribution E. Hypergeometric distribution F. Bernoulli distribution G. none of the above
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This can be modeled as a binomial distribution because each person can either vote for the candidate (success) or not vote for the candidate (failure). ** Show more…
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