Amazing Bakers sells bread to 40 supermarkets. It costs Amazing 1,250 per day to operate its plant. The profit per loaf of bread sold in the supermarket is .025 . Any unsold bread is returned to the Amazing Thrift Store to be sold at a loss of .015 .
a. If sales follow a normal distribution with = 70,000 and = 5,000 per day, how many loaves should Amazing bake daily?
b. Amazing is considering a different sales plan for which the profit per loaf of bread sold in the supermarket is .03 and the loss per loaf bread returned is .018 . If = 60,000 and = 4,000 per day, how many loaves should Amazing bake daily?
Question 2
To compute the probability that in a random sample of n elements, selected without replacement, we will obtain x successes, we would use the
a. binomial probability distribution.
b. Poisson probability distribution.
c. hypergeometric probability distribution.
d. exponential probability distribution.