An electrical contractor's records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests: Week: 2. 3 4 Requests: 28 30 22 29 30 Predict the number of requests for week 6 using each of these methods: a. Naive Number of requests 30 b. A four-period moving average. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Number of requests c. Exponential smoothing with a = 10. Use 28 for week 2 forecast. (Round your intermediate forecast values and finel answer to 2 decimal places.) Number of Requests F3 F4 F5 F6

An electrical contractor's records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests: Week: 2. 3 4 Requests: 28 30 22 29 30 Predict the number of requests for week 6 using each of these methods: a. Naive Number of requests 30 b. A four-period moving average. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Number of requests c. Exponential smoothing with a = 10. Use 28 for week 2 forecast. (Round your intermediate forecast values and finel answer to 2 decimal places.) Number of Requests F3 F4 F5 F6

College Algebra

1st Edition

ISBN:9781938168383

Author:Jay Abramson

Publisher:Jay Abramson

Chapter6: Exponential And Logarithmic Functions

Section6.8: Fitting Exponential Models To Data

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