John is the head chef of Hong Kong Style Tea Café in Central.  The business of John’s restaurant is very good, especially breakfast and lunch periods. A lot of office workers like the scramble eggs with truffle sauce. However, the rental in Central is high, John needs to open his restaurant 7 days a week for 7am - 11pm. On Monday morning when John opened the refrigerator, he found out that there were only 150 eggs left, just enough for the breakfast usage.  Normally, his restaurant needs about 450 eggs.  This is not the first time John forgot to order enough eggs for the daily operation. The next delivery will be arrived on Thursday around 11am.   (a) In order to have a safe inventory for eggs from Monday to Thursday before the next delivery, how many pieces of eggs that John needs to have in the refrigerator?

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John is the head chef of Hong Kong Style Tea Café in Central.  The business of John’s restaurant is very good, especially breakfast and lunch periods. A lot of office workers like the scramble eggs with truffle sauce. However, the rental in Central is high, John needs to open his restaurant 7 days a week for 7am - 11pm.

On Monday morning when John opened the refrigerator, he found out that there were only 150 eggs left, just enough for the breakfast usage.  Normally, his restaurant needs about 450 eggs.  This is not the first time John forgot to order enough eggs for the daily operation. The next delivery will be arrived on Thursday around 11am.  

(a) In order to have a safe inventory for eggs from Monday to Thursday before the next delivery, how many pieces of eggs that John needs to have in the refrigerator?

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