Question: A manufacturing area needs to forecast workhours. The data for several months is supplied below. Be careful since the data is listed beginning with the

A manufacturing area needs to forecast workhours. The data for several months is supplied below. Be careful since the data is listed beginning with the most recent. The forecasting method to be used here is the 6 month moving average after accounting for seasonality. Keep in mind you will need to compute the seasonality factors. Please round your forecast to the nearest whole number.

Apr 2021: 1067 Mar 2021: 1888 Feb 2021: 1277 Jan 2021: 1158 Dec 2020: 1871 Nov 2020: 1008
Oct 2020: 1683 Sep 2020: 1290 Aug 2020: 1596 Jul 2020: 1953 Jun 2020: 1658 May 2020: 1683
Apr 2020: 1820 Mar 2020: 1773 Feb 2020: 1680 Jan 2020: 1030 Dec 2019: 1084 Nov 2019: 1274
Oct 2019: 1185 Sep 2019: 1488 Aug 2019: 1681 Jul 2019: 1720 Jun 2019: 1213 May 2019: 1121
Apr 2019: 1164 Mar 2019: 1612 Feb 2019: 1901 Jan 2019: 1488 Dec 2018: 1183 Nov 2018: 1135
Oct 2018: 1336 Sep 2018: 1251 Aug 2018: 1023 Jul 2018: 1614 Jun 2018: 1410 May 2018: 1895

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