Analyzing the number of chocolate chips per cookie

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The quality control manager of Marilyn's Cookies is inspecting a batch of chocolate chip cookies. When the production process is in control, the average number of chocolate chips per cookie is 6. The manager wants to know the probability that any particular cookie will have fewer than 5. What type of probability distribution will most likely be used to analyze the number of chocolate chips per cookie?

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