A Weekly Sports Magazine Publishes a Special Edition for the World

question 59

Essay

A weekly sports magazine publishes a special edition for the World Series.The sales forecast is for the number of copies to be normally distributed with mean 800,000 copies and standard deviation 60,000 copies.It costs $0.35 to print a copy,and the newsstand price is $1.95.Unsold copies will be scrapped.How many copies should be printed?

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Definitions:

Revenues Earned

Represents the total amount of income generated from sales of goods or services before any deductions.

Percentage-Of-Completion

An accounting method used to recognize revenue and expenses of long-term contracts proportionally over the life of the contract based on the degree of completion.

Efforts-Expended Method

A accounting technique used to recognize revenue proportionally to the work or effort that has been completed on a project, commonly applied in long-term contracts.

Output Measures

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