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ales of quilt covers at Bud Banis's discount department store in Carbondale over the past year are shown below. Management prepared a forecast using a

ales of quilt covers at Bud Banis's discount department store in Carbondale over the past year are shown below. Management prepared a forecast using a combination of exponential smoothing and its collective judgment for the 4 months(March, April, May, and June):
Month
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Unit Sales
98
93
96
108
126
119
95
83
100
98
88
108
Management's Forecast
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus
120
116
108
110
Part 2
a) MADLOADING... for the forecast developed by the management's technique=
enter your response here sales (round your response to two decimal places).
Part 3
MAPELOADING... for the forecast developed by the management's technique=
enter your response here%(round your response to two decimal places).
Part 4
b) Using the Naive MethodLOADING..., the forecast for period March through June is (round your response to two decimal places):
Month
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Unit Sales
98
93
96
108
126
119
95
83
100
98
88
108
Naive Forecast
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus
minus

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