The Owners of the Burger Emporium Are Looking for New

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Essay

The owners of the Burger Emporium are looking for new supplier of tomatoes for their famous hamburgers. It is important that the tomato slice be roughly the same diameter as the hamburger patty. After careful analysis, they determine that they can only use tomatoes with diameters between 9 and 10 cm. Company A provides tomatoes with diameters that are approximately normally distributed with mean 10.5 cm and standard deviation of 1.1 cm. Company B provides tomatoes with diameters that are approximately normally distributed with mean 10.3 cm and standard deviation of 0.8 cm. Which company provides the higher proportion of usable tomatoes? Justify your choice with an appropriate statistical argument.

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Definitions:

Goods or Services

Products that can be physically touched or activities provided to customers, respectively, both of which satisfy consumer needs and wants.

Prospect

A potential customer or client who has been identified as fitting a target market for a product or service, but has not yet made a purchase.

Qualifying Process

The steps taken to determine a prospective customer's needs, abilities to buy, and overall suitability for a product or service.

Al's Deli

Al's Deli is a specific named entity, possibly a deli or sandwich shop, without a general definition applicable.