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.
-University Florists makes bouquets from a variety of materials. The Daily Special Bouquet is priced at $20. The florist assembles this bouquet each day from a variety of low cost flowers he buys from his flower supplier. The actual cost of flowers ranges uniformly from $2 to $7, with all intermediate values being equally likely. The florist (who studied management science many years ago) knows that the time to assemble a bouquet is normally distributed with a mean time of 5 minutes and standard deviation of 1 minute. This will be the time required for all of the Daily Special Bouquets for that day. The florist values his labor time at $10 per hour. Sales are normally distributed with a mean of 10 bouquets per day with a standard deviation of 1 bouquet. What formulas should go in cells B8:B14 to simulate daily profits for the store? Instructions: Answer the following questions using the Analytic Solver Platform Excel add-in.

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