Farmers Often Sell Fruits and Vegetables at Roadside Stands During

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Essay

Farmers often sell fruits and vegetables at roadside stands during the summer. One such roadside stand has adaily demand for tomatoes that is approximately normally distributed with a mean equal to 413 tomatoes perday and a standard deviation equal to 30 tomatoes per day. If there are 371 tomatoes available to be sold at theroadside stand at the beginning of a day, what is the probability that they will all be sold?

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Lean Manufacturing

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