A lacrosse team is selecting a captain. The names of all the seniors are put into a hat, and the first three that are drawn will be the captains. The names are not replaced once they are drawn (one person cannot be two captains). You want to see if the captains all play the same position. Is this a binomial distribution? State why or why not.

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No, because the names are not replaced after each draw, which means the trials are not independent.

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Yes, because there are two possible outcomes for each draw: either the person plays the same position or not.

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Yes, because the trials are independent, and there are only two outcomes for each trial.

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No, because the number of trials is greater than two.

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