Your supplier typically delivers a product of 94 % usable potatoes (after peeling). See the following recipe to determine how many pounds of Yukon Golds you will need. If potatoes come in 50 pound cases from your produce vendor, how many will you order?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
You are the executive chef at a large wedding facility, and a wedding with a confirmed count of 168 is scheduled for tomorrow at noon.
Your supplier typically delivers a product of 94 % usable potatoes (after peeling). See the following recipe to determine how many pounds of Yukon Golds you will need. If potatoes come in 50 pound cases from your produce vendor, how many will you order?
Hand-Smashed Yukon Gold Potatoes
Serves 60
20 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes,
unpeeled, approx. 3” chunks
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