Table 8.8 The Manager of a Pizza Shop Must Forecast Weekly Demand

question 28

Multiple Choice

Table 8.8
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 8.8.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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