Sales of Cool-Man air conditioners have grown steadily during the past 5 years as shown in the attached table. The sales manager had predicted, before the business started, that year 1s sales would be 410 air conditioners. Please use exponential smoothing with a weight of to answer the following questions.

Question 1

The starting /initial forecast for the sales of Cool-Man air conditioners is _________. (Please round it to an integer and include no units.)

A. 400

B. 410

C. 430

D. 450

Question 2

The Year 2 forecast for the sales of Cool-Man air conditioners is ______________ . (Please round it to an integer and include no units.)

Question 3

The Year 6 forecast for the sales of Cool-Man air conditioners is _____________ . (Please round it to two decimal points and include no units.)

Question 4

The Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) for the above exponential smoothing forecast is ___________. (Please round it to two decimal points.)