Question & Answer: Problem 1. stocking textbooks for INEN455 rne past, they have just ordered 50…..

Problem 1. stocking textbooks for INEN455 rne past, they have just ordered 50 textbooks. The data for sales of the textbook for the past semesters is listed in the table below. A graph of the sales data is also presented (Figure 1). The bookstore manager has decided to ask students from the IF forecasting techniques that will drive their future ordering decisions. The campus bookstore is trying to develop a better method for re manager has decided to ask students from the IE department to help them use Sales 20 25 30 10 15 40 30 Sales 20 10 Period Semester Fall 10 Spring 1l Fall 11 Spring 12 Series Linear (Series 1 ) Period (10 points) a) Which forecasting method(s) would you suggest based on the graph and why? b) Suppose that 2 period moving averages are used to forecast sales. Determine the (10 points) one-step ahead forecasts for periods 3 through 6 and place your response in column ofthe table below. Be sure to place your answer in the correct location in the table c Suppose that exponential smoothing was used to forecast sales. Determine the one- (20 points) step ahead forecasts for periods 2 through 6 using an alpha of 0.3. Place the result in the column (e) of the table below. Assume the forecast in period 1 is the same as the sales for period 1. Calculate the forecast error (absolute value of the error) for periods 3-5 for both the moving average and exponential smoothing forecasts and place the result in columns F and G, respectively. Using this information compute the MAD and MSE. What can you conclude about the two forecasting methods based on the MAD and MSE? d) (20 points)