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In a factory, it is found that a minor accident occurs once in every 10 days. A data analyst wishes to evaluate the probability of three minor accidents occuring in the next 10 days. Which distribution is the most appropriate for this purpose?Hypergeometic distributionDiscrete uniform distributionNegative binomial distributionPoisson distribution

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In a factory, it is found that a minor accident occurs once in every 10 days. A data analyst wishes to evaluate the probability of three minor accidents occuring in the next 10 days. Which distribution is the most appropriate for this purpose?Hypergeometic distributionDiscrete uniform distributionNegative binomial distributionPoisson distribution

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The most appropriate distribution for this purpose is the Poisson distribution. This is because the Poisson distribution is often used to model the number of times an event occurs in a fixed interval of time or space. In this case, we are looking at the number of accidents (events) occurring in a fixed interval of time (10 days).

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