A Hot Dog Vendor Must Decide on Monday How Many

Multiple Choice

A hot dog vendor must decide on Monday how many hot dogs to have available for the coming Saturday's football game. Each hot dog costs the vendor $3.00 and is sold for $5.00. After the game any unsold hot dogs are discounted and sold to the university cafeteria for $1.75. The vendor believes that the demand for hot dogs follows the probability distribution shown below: The optimal number of hot dogs the vendor should order for next Saturday's game is

A) 1000
B) 1500
C) 2000
D) 3000