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A small company gathered sales data over the last 7 months as follows:
Month Sales
January 267
February 273
March
234
April
261
May
270
June
213
July
261
August
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Do not round answers.
a) What is the 3-month moving average forecast for May?
b) What is the 2-month weighted moving average forecast for April using weights 5 and
3? Assign higher weight to the most recent period.
c) Given that the exponentially smoothed forecast for February is 267, what is the
simple exponential smoothing forecast for April with a = = 0.2?
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Transcribed Image Text:A small company gathered sales data over the last 7 months as follows: Month Sales January 267 February 273 March 234 April 261 May 270 June 213 July 261 August Download CSV Do not round answers. a) What is the 3-month moving average forecast for May? b) What is the 2-month weighted moving average forecast for April using weights 5 and 3? Assign higher weight to the most recent period. c) Given that the exponentially smoothed forecast for February is 267, what is the simple exponential smoothing forecast for April with a = = 0.2?
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