Practical Management Science, Loose-leaf Version

5th Edition

ISBN: 9781305631540

Author: WINSTON, Wayne L.; Albright, S. Christian

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 14.6, Problem 21P

The file P14_21.xlsx contains the weekly sales of rakes at a hardware store for a two-year period. Use the moving averages method, with spans of your choice, to forecast sales for the next 30 weeks. Does this method appear to track sales well? If not, what might be the reason?

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Practical Management Science, Loose-leaf Version

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