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 131 tomatoes and a standard deviation of 30 tomatoes. How many tomatoes must be available on any given day so that there is only a 1.5% chance that
all tomatoes will be sold?

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Working Memory

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