Exhibit 12.5 The Following Questions Use the Information Below

question 6

Multiple Choice

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 amount of time a customer spends with the server is referred to as

• A) system time.
• B) queue time.
• C) service time.
• D) served time.

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Definitions:

Average Balance

Average balance is a financial term referring to the sum of all balances during a certain period divided by the number of days in that period, often used in banking to assess fees or determine interest.

Standard Deviation

An evaluation of how spread out or dispersed a collection of data points is.

Normally Distributed

A data distribution pattern that follows the normal (bell curve) distribution.

Average Starting Salary

The mean initial compensation given to employees in a specific job or industry, often used as a benchmark for job seekers.