Question: show work, include units, and label/circle the final answers. (Round all answers to two decimal places) PROBLEM 4 (10 points) The Heartland Produce Company sells

show work, include units, and label/circle the final answers. (Round all answers to two decimal places) show work, include units, and label/circle the
PROBLEM 4 (10 points) The Heartland Produce Company sells and delivers food produce to restaurants and catering services within a 100-mile radius of its warehouse. The food supply business is competitive, and the ability to deliver orders promptly is a factor in getting new customers and keeping old ones. The manager of the company wants to be certain enough drivers and vehicles are available to deliver orders promptly and they have adequate inventory in stock. Therefore, the manager wants to be able to forecast the number of order that will occur during the next month (i.e., to forecast the demand for deliveries). From records of delivery orders, management has accumulated the following data for the past 10 months, from which it wants to compute three- and five-month moving averages Month Orders Month January 220 June February 100 July March 150 August April 150 september May 30 October Orders 50 95 125 1201 75 Let us assume that it is the end of October. The forecast resulting from either the three-or five-month moving average is typically for the next month in the sequence, which in this case is November. Compute the three month and five month moving average

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