Question: PLEASE ANSWER ALL 4 QUARTER PREDICTIONS !! Will The manager of Alaina's Garden Center must make the annual purchasing plans for rakes, gloves, and other

PLEASE ANSWER ALL 4 QUARTER PREDICTIONS !! Will
PLEASE ANSWER ALL 4 QUARTER PREDICTIONS !! Will
The manager of Alaina's Garden Center must make the annual purchasing plans for rakes, gloves, and other gardening items. One of the items the company stocks is Fast-Grow, a liquid fertilizer. The sales of this item are seasonal, with peaks in the spring, summer, and fall months. Quarterly demand (in cases) for the past two years is as follows: Quarter 1 2 3 4 Total Year 1 44 341 297 204 886 Year 2 62 452 308 289 1,111 If the expected sales for Fast-Grow are 1,288 cases for year 3, use the multiplicative seasonal method to prepare a forecast for each quarter of the year. (Round all intermediate calculations to three decimal places.) The first quarter forecast is cases. (Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.)

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