A small market orders copies of a certain magazine for its magazine rack each week. Let X = demand for the magazine, with pmf   x 1 2 3 4 5 6 p(x) 1/5 2/15 3/15 4/15 3/15 2/15   Suppose the store owner actually pays $2.00 for each copy of the magazine and the price to customers is $4.00.If magazines left at the end of the week have no salvage value, is it better to order three or four copies of the magazine? [Hint: For both three and four copies ordered, express net revenue as a function of demand X, and then compute the expected revenue.]

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Suppose the store owner actually pays $2.00 for each copy of the magazine and the price to customers is $4.00.If magazines left at the end of the week have no salvage value, is it better to order three or four copies of the magazine? [Hint: For both three and four copies ordered, express net revenue as a function of demand X, and then compute the expected revenue.]

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