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 function should be used for generating random numbers between 1 and 12 from a continuous uniform distribution?

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Definitions:

Expected Growth Rate

The anticipated rate at which an investment, economy, or other financial entity will grow over a certain period.

Rate of Return

The outcome in terms of profit or loss on an investment over a designated period, presented as a percentage of the investment’s first cost.

Dividend

A part of a company’s profits given out to its shareholders, usually as cash or more shares.

ROE

Return on Equity; a measure of financial performance calculated by dividing net income by shareholder equity.