Question: A textbook publishing company has compiled data on total annual sales of its business texts for the preceding nine years: Year 1 2 3 4

A textbook publishing company has compiled data on total annual sales of its business texts for the preceding nine years:

Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sales (000): 38.40 44.50 48.00 53.40 56.20 57.10 62.80 68.10 74.80

a. Using an appropriate model, forecast textbook sales for each of the next five years. (Round your intermediate calculations to 3 decimal places and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Year 10 11 12 13 14
Forecast

b. Compute +/- 2s control limits for the control chart for forecast errors using just data from the original nine periods. (Round your intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)

Control limits are 0

Is the forecast performing adequately?

Please show calculations in excel.

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