6.  Cynthia Knott’s seafood restaurant buys fresh Nova Scotia lobster for $4.5 per pound and sells them for $9 per pound. Any lobsters not sold that day are sold to her cousin’s nearby grocery store for $1 per pound. Cynthia believes that demand follows the normal distribution, with a mean of 100 pounds and a standard deviation of 15 pounds. How many pounds should she order each day?

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  • Cynthia Knott’s seafood restaurant buys fresh Nova Scotia lobster for $4.5 per pound and sells them for $9 per pound. Any lobsters not sold that day are sold to her cousin’s nearby grocery store for $1 per pound. Cynthia believes that demand follows the normal distribution, with a mean of 100 pounds and a standard deviation of 15 pounds. How many pounds should she order each day?
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