Weekly demand for a product is Normally distributed with mean 500 and standard deviation 100. This company observes inventory and places an order every week, but it takes 3 weeks to actually receive the order. This company is using an order-up-to policy for inventory replenishment. Currently, there are 150 units of inventory. How many units should this company order at this time to achieve 99.7% in-stock probability?

answer; /// i believe the correct answer is first in, first out(fifo); //

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heterothermic organisms include those organisms that can switch between homeothermic (having body temperature higher than environment) and poikilothermic (having variation in internal body temperature) strategies.

some migratory birds show heterothermy as they decrease their metabolic rate during cold nights to keep their body temperature low. drop in metabolic rate allows increase in production efficiency of birds that reduces the internal body temperature to make it equal to external cold temperature during cold nights.

thus, the correct answer is 'birds allow their temperature drop in order to increase their production efficiency.'

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