Sports magazine publishes special edition for world series

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A weekly sports magazine publishes a special edition for the World Series. The sales forecast is for the number of copies to be normally distributed with mean 800,000 copies and standard deviation 60,000 copies. It costs $0.35 to print a copy, and the newsstand price is $1.95. Unsold copies will be scrapped. How many copies should be printed?

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