A gardener plants 20 seeds, and each seed has an initially unknown probability of germinating, depending on the seed's type and age. Is it appropriate to model the number of seeds that germinate as a binomial random variable?

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No, because the probability of germination is not constant across trials.

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Yes, because there is a fixed number of seeds planted.

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No, because the outcomes are not independent.

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No, because there are more than two outcomes possible.

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