How many meals should Alpha order? (Choose the closest answer.)

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Alpha Airlines has to decide how many meals to load on its daily 6 pm non-stop flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. The meals are sold on board to economy class passengers for $10.00 and cost the airline $4.00 each. All meal orders must be made at least 48 hours before the flight departs. Any meals left over at the end of the flight are tossed into the trash by the ground clean-up crew. Alpha estimates that the demand for the meals on this flight is Poisson distributed with a mean of 9.

 

1.How many meals should Alpha order? (Choose the closest answer.)

a)     6

b)    7

c)     8

d)    9

e)     10

f)     11

g)     12

h)    13

i)      14

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