SOLUTION: What type of probability distribution (uniform, binomial, geometric or hypergeometric) for the event "predicting the waiting time when standing in a line at the theatre"? Explain w

Question 773104: What type of probability distribution (uniform, binomial, geometric or hypergeometric) for the event "predicting the waiting time when standing in a line at the theatre"? Explain why you chose that.
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What type of probability distribution (uniform, binomial, geometric or hypergeometric) for the event "predicting the waiting time when standing in a line at the theatre"? Explain why you chose that.
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A:
The Binomial, Geometric, and Hypergeometric distributions are all discrete random variables.
The Uniform distribution is a continuous random variable, therefore the possible distribution of waiting time is Uniform.

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