The monthly sales for yazici batteries, inc., were as follows: month salesjanuary 20february 21march 15april 14may 13june 16july 17august 18september 20october 20november 21december 23top of forma)plot the monthly sales data. b)forecast january sales using each of the following: i)naive method. ii)a 3-month moving average. iii)a 6-month weighted average using .1, .1, .1, .2, .2, and .3, with the heaviest weights applied to the most recent months. iv)exponential smoothing using an α = .3 and a september forecast of 18.v)a trend projection. c)with the data given, which method would allow you to forecast next march’s sales?

The beginning inventory is expected to be 2,000 cases. expected sales are 10,000 cases, and the company wishes to begin the next period with an inventory of 1,000 cases. the number of cases the company must purchase during the month is multiple choice 9,000 cases. 10,000 cases. 11,000 cases. 13,000 cases.

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Your dormitory, griffingate, has appointed you central banker of its economy, which deals in the currency of wizcoins. assume that the velocity of wizcoins in griffingate is constant at 10,000 transactions per year. right now, real gdp is 1,000 wizcoins, and there are 2,000 wizcoins in existence.