A Vancouver store sells a one day two hour children events tickets. Once-a-week on sale 2. . starts on Monday. Monday-to-Wednesday demand for the tickets can be approximated by a normal probability distribution with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 120. The tickets cost $1.50 each, and the store sells them for $3 each. (a) If the store throws out all unsold tickets at the end of Wednesday, how many tickets should be ordered? (b) If the store reduces the ticket price to $1 each at the end of Wednesday and can sell all surplus tickets at this price, how many tickets should be ordered?
A Vancouver store sells a one day two hour children events tickets. Once-a-week on sale 2. . starts on Monday. Monday-to-Wednesday demand for the tickets can be approximated by a normal probability distribution with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 120. The tickets cost $1.50 each, and the store sells them for $3 each. (a) If the store throws out all unsold tickets at the end of Wednesday, how many tickets should be ordered? (b) If the store reduces the ticket price to $1 each at the end of Wednesday and can sell all surplus tickets at this price, how many tickets should be ordered?
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Chapter10: Statistics
Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
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