One hundred policyholders file claims with CareFree Insurance. Ten of these claims are fraudulent. Claims manager Earl Evans randomly selects four of the ten claims for thorough investigation. If x represents the number of fraudulent claims in Earl's sample, x has a/an ____________ .

A. normal distribution

B. exponential distribution

C. binomial distribution, but may be approximated by a Poisson

D. binomial distribution, but may be approximated by a normal

E. hypergeometric distribution, but may be approximated by a binomial