1. An experiment consists of making 80 telephone calls in order to sell a exacting insurance policy. The random variable in this experiment is a

a. discrete random variable
b. continuous random variable
c. complex random variable
d. none of the above is correct

2. In textile industry, a manufacturer is interested in the number of blemishes or flaws occurring in each 100 feet of material. Of the following probability distributions, the one that most applies to this situation is the

a. normal distribution
b. binomial distribution
c. Poisson distribution
d. uniform distribution
e. none of the above is correct