Bondi Restaurant orders special Styrofoam paper bags for its customers once a month and lead time is one week. Weekly demand for paper bags is approximately normally distributed with an average of 120 bags and a standard deviation of 25. Chez Paul wants at most a 3% chance of running out of paper bags during the replenishment period. If he has 150 bags in stock when he places an order, how many additional bags should he order? What is the safety stock in this case?

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Bondi Restaurant orders special Styrofoam paper bags for its customers once a month and lead time is one week. Weekly demand for paper bags is approximately normally distributed with an average of 120 bags and a standard deviation of 25. Chez Paul wants at most a 3% chance of running out of paper bags during the replenishment period. If he has 150 bags in stock when he places an order, how many additional bags should he order? What is the safety stock in this case? 

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