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.
-The spreadsheet model for Sal, from Exhibit 12.5, has been run 300 times to produce the following output. What is the best case scenario for Sal based on this output? Instructions: Answer the following questions using the Analytic Solver Platform Excel add-in.

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Definitions:

Robinson-Patman Act

A United States federal law that aims to prevent anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination.

Price Discrimination

occurs when a seller charges different prices to different buyers for goods of like grade and quality, without justification.

Discriminatory Price

A pricing strategy where different prices are charged for the same product or service in different markets or to different segments of consumers without a corresponding difference in cost.

Clayton Act

An antitrust law in the United States that prohibits certain actions leading to anti-competitiveness, such as price discrimination and exclusive deals.