Company XYZ, Inc. purchases widgets from a supplier at a cost of $20 per unit and sells the widgets for $30 per unit. By the end of Spring, demand for these widgets subsided considerably and all widgets that weren't sold during the Spring can be sold at a discounted price of $18 per unit. The company estimates demand during quarter two (Q2) to be normally distributed with mu = ? = 10,000 and sigma = ? =1525 boxes What is the optimal stockout probability for company XYZ, Inc.?

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Company XYZ, Inc. purchases widgets from a supplier at a cost of $20 per unit and sells the widgets for $30 per unit. By the end of Spring, demand for these widgets subsided considerably and all widgets that weren't sold during the Spring can be sold at a discounted price of $18 per unit. The company estimates demand during quarter two (Q2) to be normally distributed with mu = ? = 10,000 and sigma = ? =1525 boxes

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