Farmers Often Sell Fruits and Vegetables at Roadside Stands During

question 50

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 582 tomatoes and a standard deviation of 30 tomatoes. If there
are 540 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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