The local supermarket buys lettuce each day to ensure really fresh
produce. Each morning any lettuce that is left from the previous day is sold to a dealer that resells it to farmers who use it to feed their animals. This week the supermarket can buy fresh lettuce for $4.00 a box. The lettuce is sold for $10.00 a box and the dealer that sells old lettuce is willing to pay $1.5 per box. Past history says that tomorrow's demand for lettuce averages 250 boxes with a standard deviation of 34 boxes. a. How many boxes of lettuce should the supermarket purchase tomorrow?b. With the solution in question a above, what is the probability that the supermarket satisfies all the demand tomorrow?
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