Question: please answer Year The table below shows the sales for product B of the last two years. Year Quarter Sales Year Quarter Sales Year Quarter

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Year The table below shows the sales for product B of the last two years. Year Quarter Sales Year Quarter Sales Year Quarter Sales 1 800 1 840 1 820 200 2 230 2018 205 2019 2 2020 900 960 3 910 4 300 4 370 4 350 2 2021 Quarter 1 2 3 4 Sales ? ? ? ? 3 1) You are required to perform forecasting for year 2021 (per quarter) only to find December sale by using the flowing methods a) Exponential Smoothing forecast (a=0.4). b) Trend-Adjusted Exponential Smoothing forecast (a=0.6, B= 0.8). c) Find the MSE value for the above forecasting methods. Then, find which of the two three forecast methods (Exponential Smoothing and Trend-Adjusted Exponential Smoothing) for December do you prefer and why
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