ARU OMBATHU

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The monthly sales for Telco Batteries, Inc., were as follows. Month Sales Jan 21 Feb 20 Mar 16 Apr 14 May 11 Jun 15 Jul 17 Aug Sept 19 22 Oct 20 Nov 23 Dec 22 This exercise contains only parts b and c. b) The forecast for the next month (Jan) using the naive method = sales. (Round your response to a whole number.) The forecast for the next period (Jan) using a 3-month moving average approach = sales. (Round your response to two decimal places.) sales. (Round your The forecast for the next period (Jan) using a 6-month weighted average with weights of 0.10, 0.10, 0.10, 0.20, 0.20, and 0.30, where the heaviest weights are applied to the most recent month = response to one decimal place.) Using exponential smoothing with a = 0.40 and a September forecast of 20.00, the forecast for the next period (Jan) = sales. (Round your response to two decimal places.) Using the method of trend projection, the forecast for the next month (Jan) = sales. (Round your response to two decimal places.) c) The method that can be used for making a forecast for the month of March is a 3-month moving average. a trend projection. exponential smoothing. a 6-month weighted moving average. the naive method