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A small company gathered sales data over the last 7 months as follows: Month Sales January 273 February 225 March 276 April 219 May 288 June 228 July 225 August Download CSV Do not round answers. a) What is the 3-month moving average forecast for May? b) What is the 2-month weighted moving average forecast for May using weights 3 and 27 Assign higher weight to the most recent period. c) Given that the exponentially smoothed forecast for February is 273, what is the simple exponential smoothing forecast for March with a = 0.3?Actual sales for a product over the last 4 periods are given below. Given o = 0.4, calculate simple exponential smoothing forecasts for periods 3 to 5. Do not round answers. Period Actual Forecast 300 2 240 300 3 250 4 210 5