Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 5, Problem 45AP
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Interpretation: Optimal number of bagels to be baked each day is to be calculated.
Concept Introduction: Poisson distribution is the probability distribution of discrete random variable series in which frequency of outcomes is calculated in a given period of time.
Standard deviation is the numerical expression of showing the error from the average.
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