During early 2012, economic hardship was stretching the limits of france’s welfare system. one indicator of the level of hardship was the increase in the number of people bringing items to a paris pawnbroker; the number of people bringing items to the pawnbroker had increased to 658 per day (bloomberg businessweek, march 5–march 11, 2012). assume the number of people bringing items to the pawnshop per day in 2012 is normally distributed with a mean of 658. anderson, david r.. essentials of statistics for business and economics (p. 298). south-western college pub. kindle edition.