1. How are the simple moving average and the exponential smoothing methods affected by a mild trend in the series?

1. Exponential smoothing will lag a mild trend in the series, but a simple moving average forecast will not.
2. Both methods will lag a mild trend in the series, but exponential smoothing will lag less.
3. Neither method will lag a mild trend in the series.
4. A simple moving average forecast will lag a mild trend in the series, but exponential smoothing will not.