The manager of a travel agency has been using a seasonally adjusted forecast to predict demand for packaged tours. The actual and predicted values are as follows: Period Demand Predicted 1 136 113 2 196 200 3 156 150 4 91 102 5 86 80 6 131 135 7 126 128 8 129 124 9 94 109 10 149 150 11 104 94 12 89 80 13 124 140 14 134 128 Click here for the Excel Data File a. Compute MAD for the fifth period, then update it period by period using exponential smoothing with a = .05. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 3 decimal places.) t Period MADt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Please do not give solution in image formate thanku. Read the following scenario from the Human Resource Management textbook’s supplementary materials and compose your response in essay form. The CEO of your hospital wants to improve employee morale. Recently, she went to a conference where she heard people talking about “open-book management.” According to the conference attendees, many companies have achieved good results by sharing all of their financial statements with employees. But your CEO isn’t sure whether or not they are including compensation in those financial statements. What advice would you give her?

You may need to use the appropriate technology to answer this question. Management Decision Systems (MDS) is a consulting company that specializes in the development of decision support systems. MDS has a four-person team working on a current project with a small company to set up a system that scrapes data from a collection of websites and then automatically generates a report for management on a daily basis.       Time (Weeks) Activity Description ImmediatePredecessor Optimistic Most Probable Pessimistic A Report generation   2 9 13 B Web scraping   6 10 12 C Testing A, B 1 1 1 (a) Construct the project network. (Submit a file with a maximum size of 1 MB.) (b) Based solely on the critical path, estimate the probability that the project will be complete within 12 weeks. (Round your answer to four decimal places.) It is not 0.9099   (c) Using all paths through the project network, estimate the probability that the project will be complete within 12 weeks. (Round…

One of the engineers at Clearwater Electronics is a devout Muslim and is required to attend prayer services at his mosque during the day on Friday for a short period. He has asked his direct supervisor in the past if he might take time off, but his supervisor said it would be too inconvenient. The engineer has now asked HR for help in determining if a reasonable accommodation could be made so he can attend the midday prayer service. Which of the following statements would be considered the best “reasonable accommodation” HR can present to the supervisor?     The company could allow the engineer to take his lunch break to attend the prayer service. If he is late returning, he can make up the time at the end of the day.   The company could remodel a storage area as a prayer space, which would require at least six thousand dollars for the remodel because of the need for washroom facilities.   The company could ask another employee to cover for the time the engineer is gone and…

What are machine learning algorithms good at? (MC) Pick correct answer:     Finding and matching patterns contained in structured data once properly set up.     Writing poetry and fiction books once properly set up.     Finding and matching patterns contained in any dataset once properly set up.     Finding and matching patterns contained in unstructured and semi-structured data once properly set up.

Which of the following is the most critical concern when conducting internet surveys? Group of answer choices Everybody likes to participate in online surveys. Errors can be introduced because we can't be absolutely certain who answered the questions. Some people answer internet surveys on their mobile phone. Broadband isn't fast enough.

Which of the following is true concerning the manuscript tradition of the New Testament? Group of answer choices When compared with other works of antiquity, there are many more ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and these manuscripts are much closer in date to the originals There is a thousand year gap between the copies and their original manuscripts The New Testament was written during the second century There are about a thousand ancient manuscripts of the New Testament

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Which of the following words most accurately describes a business strategy? Group of answer choices Goal Motto Theory All of the options

Mrs. Peters needed to raise money to bring her class to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. With only a few weeks left before the deadline, the class was raising an average of $45 every day from online donations. Mrs. Peters was worried they might not raise the last $1,000 in time. That evening, she posted a story about the class trip on an education website, and the donation rate doubled overnight! The new rate stayed the same for the remaining 3 weeks until the deadline, and they raised more than their goal! How much extra did the class raise?