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Question
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Which of the following cannot generate a Poisson distribution?
Options
The number of telephone calls received in a ten-minute interval
The number of customers arriving at a petrol station
e number of bacteria found in a cubic feet of soil
The number of misprints per page
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Solution
The number of customers arriving at a petrol station
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