6.14 A retail grocer has a daily demand X for a certain food sold by the pound,...

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6.14 A retail grocer has a daily demand X for a certain food sold by the pound, such that X (measured in hundreds of pounds) has probability density function

(He cannot stock over 100 pounds.) The grocer wants to order 100k of food on a certain day. He buys the food at 6¢ per pound and sells it at 10¢

per pound. What value of k will maximize his expected daily profit?

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Probability And Statistics For Engineers

ISBN: 9781133006909

5th Edition

Authors: Richard L Scheaffer, Madhuri Mulekar, James T McClave, Cecie Starr

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