A Hot Dog Vendor Must Decide on Monday How Many

question 70

Multiple Choice

A hot dog vendor must decide on Monday how many hot dogs to have available for the coming Saturday's football game.Each hot dog costs the vendor $3.00 and is sold for $5.00.After the game any unsold hot dogs are discounted and sold to the university cafeteria for $1.75.The vendor believes that the demand for hot dogs follows the probability distribution shown below: The vendor's cost of underestimating demand,C_u,is

• A)$3.00.
• B)$1.75.
• C)$2.00.
• D)$3.25.

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