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Suppose that 10% of the Victorians will answer a survey question when asked on the street. A researcher is on the street randomly and independently choosing people to ask a survey question. Let X represent the number of people who refuse to answer the survey when approached before the researcher encounters the first person who agrees to do the survey. Which one of the following distributions does random variable X follow?Select one:a.Negative binomial distributionb.Geometric distributionc.Poisson distributiond.Hypergeometric distribution

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Suppose that 10% of the Victorians will answer a survey question when asked on the street. A researcher is on the street randomly and independently choosing people to ask a survey question. Let X represent the number of people who refuse to answer the survey when approached before the researcher encounters the first person who agrees to do the survey. Which one of the following distributions does random variable X follow?Select one:a.Negative binomial distributionb.Geometric distributionc.Poisson distributiond.Hypergeometric distribution

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The random variable X follows a Geometric distribution.

Here's why:

The Geometric distribution is used to model the number of failures before the first success in a series of Bernoulli trials. In this case, a "success" is defined as a person agreeing to answer the survey, and a "failure" is a person refusing to answer the survey.

The researcher is conducting a series of independent trials (asking people to answer the survey), each of which results in a success (person agrees to answer) with probability 0.

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