You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go to the printer and buy the day's paper for $0.25 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro rimes for $1.00. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean 250 and standard deviation 50. At the end of each morning, any leftover Copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin. Part (a) How many copies Of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning? Part (b) Based on (a) what is the probability that you will run out of stock?

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You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go
to the printer and buy the day's paper for $0.25 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro rimes for
$1.00. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean 250 and standard deviation 50. At the
end of each morning, any leftover Copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin.
Part (a) How many copies Of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning?
Part (b) Based on (a) what is the probability that you will run out of stock?
Transcribed Image Text:You are a newsvendor selling San Pedro Times every morning. Before you get to work, you go to the printer and buy the day's paper for $0.25 a copy. You sell a copy of San Pedro rimes for $1.00. Daily demand is distributed normally with mean 250 and standard deviation 50. At the end of each morning, any leftover Copies are worthless and they go to a recycle bin. Part (a) How many copies Of San Pedro Times should you buy each morning? Part (b) Based on (a) what is the probability that you will run out of stock?
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