A supermarket has experienced weekly demand of milk of D1 = 120, D2 = 127, D3 = 114, and D4 = 122 gallons over the past four weeks. Forecast demand for Period 5 using a four-period moving average. What is the forecast error if demand in Period 5 turns out to be 125 gallons?

The following are monthly actual and forecast demand levels for May through December for units of a product manufactured by the Deborah Bishop Company in Des Moines: Month May June July August September October Actual Demand 105 82 110 112 108 106 130 120 Forecast Demand 100 108 97 98 108 102 105 107 November December For the given forecast, the tracking signal = MADS (round your response to two decimal places).

Assume Sandra's forecasted ADR for the night is $1600.99. What would be her estimated total room revenue for this day? ADR = Total room revenue / Number of rooms sold

Data collected on the yearly registrations for a Six Sigma seminar at the Quality College are shown in the following table: Year Year Forecast (000) 1 2 4.00 7.00 1 5.00 3 5.00 Registrations (000) a) Calculate the forecasted registrations for years 2 through 12 using exponential smoothing, with a smoothing constant (a) of 0.40 and a starting forecast of 5.00 for year 1 (round your responses to one decimal place): 2 3 4.6 5.56 4 4.00 4 5.34 11 9 10 7 8 6 5 9.00 9.00 6.00 10.00 13.00 14.00 12.00 5 4.80 6 7 6.48 7.49 8 6.89 9 8.14 10 10.08 11 11.64 12 11.79 b) Mean absolute deviation based on the forecast developed using the exponential smoothing method (with a smoothing constant (a) = 0.40 and a starting forecast of F₁ = 5.00) is response to one decimal place). registrations (round your