Ontario Sweet Shop makes special boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates. Each costs $15 in material and labor and sells for $30. After Valentine’s Day, the shop reduces the price to $10.00 and sells any remaining boxes. The demand is estimated to be normally distributed, with a mean of 70 and standard deviation of 6. Determine the optimal number of boxes to make.   How would her decision change if she can only sell all remaining boxes at a price of $5?

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  1. Ontario Sweet Shop makes special boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates. Each costs $15 in material and labor and sells for $30. After Valentine’s Day, the shop reduces the price to $10.00 and sells any remaining boxes. The demand is estimated to be normally distributed, with a mean of 70 and standard deviation of 6. Determine the optimal number of boxes to make.

 

How would her decision change if she can only sell all remaining boxes at a price of $5? 

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