MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN B-]S GLUON DECAYS

The final states for the process b --> s gamma have been extensively d iscussed in the literature. Similarly-detailed analyses for the case b --> s gluon have not been performed. Generally this process is search ed for in 2-body decays such as B-0 --> K+ pi(-). We present simple ar guments to suggest that most of the time the quark-level process will give rise to final states with rather high multiplicities. Comments ar e made about the applicability of these results to b --> d gluon and h adronic b --> u decays.