1. A data analyst used exponential smoothing to generate the following weekly forecasts. What should be the forecast for week 7? Keep one decimal place.

Week	Sales	Forecast
1	10
2	12	10
3	17	10.8
4	14	13.28
5	19	13.568
6	22	15.7408
7

2. For the exponential smoothing method, a greater value of the smoothing constsant makes the forecasts more accurate, because the method will assign a greater weight to the more recent observations.

Question 2 options:

	True
	False

3. If the time series data has a significant upward trend, the moving average method tends to ______ the actual quantity.

Question 3 options:

	underestimate
	overestimate