Table 14.13 The Manager of a Pizza Shop Must Forecast Weekly Demand

question 14

Multiple Choice

Table 14.13
The manager of a pizza shop must forecast weekly demand for special pizzas so that he can order pizza shells weekly.Recent demand has been:

-Use the information from Table 14.13.The pizza shop manager is looking for a forecasting approach that will forecast her demand within 0.5 pizzas.If the actual demand for week #7 was 39 pizzas,which of the combination forecasts came closest to predicting this demand?

• A)simple moving average and weighted moving average forecast
• B)simple moving average and exponentially smoothed forecast
• C)weighted moving average and exponentially smoothed forecast pizzas
• D)week #7 demand of 39 is within 0.5 pizzas for all three of these combination forecasts,and thus all of them are appropriate.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, which increases or decreases the likelihood of the behavior being repeated, as conceptualized by B.F. Skinner.

Reinforcer

A reinforcer is any stimulus that strengthens or increases the probability of a specific response or behavior by providing a desirable consequence or outcome.

Punisher

An unfavorable consequence or penalty intended to reduce the occurrence of an unwanted behavior.

Respondent Behavior

A behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus; typically used in the context of classical conditioning.