The data for a given hospital visit in weeks is shown by the table below, answer the following questions:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
70	73	65	62	80	74	69	78

What is the forecast for week 9 using a 3-week weighted moving average with weights 0.5, 0.3 and 0.2 (NB: the largest weight is assigned to figure 78, i.e. forecast for week 8)?

		approximately 75 patients
		74 patients
		approximately 73 patients
		approximately 72 patients

What is the forecast for week 9 using an exponential smoothing forecast with an alpha equal to 0.3? (Assume a first-period forecast equal to the actual value for Period 1.)?

		approximately 95 patients
		94 patients
		approximately 98 patients
		none of the above