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 a daily demand for tomatoes that is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 516 tomatoes and a standard deviation of 30 tomatoes. If there are 474 tomatoes available to be sold at the roadside stand at the beginning of a day, what is the probability that they will all be sold?

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Definitions:

Pyloric Sphincter

A muscular valve that opens and closes to regulate the passage of partially digested food from the stomach to the duodenum.

Chyme

A semi-fluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

Gastric Contents

The mixture of food, digestive juices, and enzymes present in the stomach.

Skeletal Muscle

A type of muscle tissue that is attached to bones and helps facilitate movement by contracting and relaxing.