In: Statistics and Probability
A professional football team is preparing its budget for the next year. One component of the budget is the revenue that they can expect from ticket sales. The home venue, Dylan Stadium, has five different seating zones with different prices. Key information is given below. The demands are all assumed to be normally distributed. Seating Zone Seats Available Ticket Price Mean Demand Standard Deviation
seat zones - Seat availability - Ticket Price - Mean demand - standard deviation.
First Level Sideline 15,000 $100.00 14,500 750
Second Level 5,000 $90.00 4,750 500
First Level End Zone 10,000 $80.00 9,000 1,250
Third Level Sideline 21,000 $70.00 17,000 2,500
Third Level End Zone 14,000 $60.00 8,000 3,000
Determine the distribution of total revenue under these assumptions using an Excel data table with 50 simulated trials. Summarize your results with a histogram.
We simulate the demands using Excel function =NORM.INV()
For example to simulate the demand for First Level Sideline, we use NORM.INV(RAND(),14500,750)
If this demand is negative we will set it to 0
The tickets sold is min(demand,seats available)
The revenue is (number of tickets sold)*(Ticket price)
Prepare the following sheet
Columns A to F
Columns G to L
Copy the rows to make 50 trials. Paste as values to avoid changes
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Use data-->data analysis-->histogram
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format as needed
Calculate the mean and standard deviation of total revenue
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