Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:A convenience store recently started to carry a new brand of soft drink. Management is interested in estimating future sales volume to determine whether it should
continue to carry the new brand or replace it with another brand. The following table provides the number of cans sold per week. Use both the trend projection with
regression and the exponential smoothing (let a=0.4 with an initial forecast for week 1 of 584) methods to forecast demand for week 13. Compare these methods
by using the mean absolute deviation and mean absolute percent error performance criteria. Does your analysis suggest that sales are trending and if so, by how
much?
1
584
(i) Obtain the trend projection with regression forecast
The forecast for week 13 is
2
632
Period
Sales
3
652
4 5 6
737 650 622
7
728
(Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.)
8
712
9 10
756
727
11
668
12
740
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