A newsboy purchases papers at 10 cents and sells them at

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A newsboy purchases papers at 10 cents and sells them at 15 cents. However, he is not allowed to return unsold papers. If his daily demand is a binomial random variable with n = 10, p =, approximately how many papers should he purchase so as to maximize his expected profit?

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QUESTION:

Problem 33P

A newsboy purchases papers at 10 cents and sells them at 15 cents. However, he is not allowed to return unsold papers. If his daily demand is a binomial random variable with n = 10, p =, approximately how many papers should he purchase so as to maximize his expected profit?

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A newsboy purchases papers at 10 cents and sells them at 15 cents without replacement.

The daily demand  is a binomial random variable with n=10, p=.

We have to find how many papers should purchase so as to maximize his expected profit.


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