Weekly Sales of the Weber Food Processor for the Past

question 5

Essay

Weekly sales of the Weber food processor for the past 10 weeks have been as follows:
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a.Determine,on the basis of minimizing the mean square error,whether a three- or four-period simple moving average model gives a better forecast for this problem.
b.For each model,forecast sales for Week 11.

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