Exhibit 12.5 The Following Questions Use the Information Below

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Exhibit 12.5
The following questions use the information below.
The owner of Sal's Italian Restaurant wants to study the growth of his business using simulation. He is interested in simulating the number of customers and the amount ordered by customers each month. He currently serves 1000 customers per month and feels this can vary uniformly between a decrease of as much as 5% and an increase of up to 9%. The bill for each customer is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of $20 and a standard deviation of $5. The average order has been increasing steadily over the years and the owner expects the mean order will increase by 2% per month. You have created the following spreadsheet to simulate the problem.
-What gallery distribution should be used for generating the number of times "tails" come up over 15 flips of a "fair" coin?

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Definitions:

Systematic Desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique used to treat phobias and other behavior disorders through controlled exposure to the stimuli causing the disorder, combined with relaxation techniques to reduce anxiety.

Psychodynamic Therapy

A therapeutic approach emphasizing the exploration of the unconscious mind and its influence on human behavior, rooted in psychoanalytic theory.

Cognitive Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns, beliefs, and attitudes to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies.

Aversive Conditioning

A form of behavior modification that involves associating an unwanted behavior with an unpleasant stimulus to reduce the behavior's occurrence.