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The daily sales of a peanut butter at Power's Grocery are normally distributed, with a mean of 12 jars and a standard deviation of 4. The manager checks the inventories on shelves and places an order every three days. Delivery lead time is two days and they carry 21 jars for safety stock. If there are 4 jars on the shelf when an order is placed, how much should the store order?a. 77b. 32c. 36d. 81

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Answer:

d. 81

Step-by-step explanation:

E(number of order) = E(X1) + E(X2) + 21 -4

= 12 + 12 + 17

= 41

Therefore, The store should order 81 .

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