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Ack! Indeed. @micromass - I got the right answer by the wrong method...mfb said:Your calculation would assume that you always sell 60 newspapers if you buy 60, which is clearly not true.
Ack! Indeed. @micromass - I got the right answer by the wrong method...mfb said:Your calculation would assume that you always sell 60 newspapers if you buy 60, which is clearly not true.
Wow. You're fast!mfb said:Newspapers... using numbers from Chestermiller and the described approach, here is the expected profit for each case:
40: 689.36
50: 797.125
60: 840.765 <- best
70: 765.38
80: 607.195
90: 372.285
100: 103.31