Consider the following time series data. week 1 2 3 4 5 6value 18 13 16 11 17 14a. construct a time series plot. what type of pattern exists in the data? b. develop a three-week moving average for this time series. compute mse and a forecast for week 7.c. use a 5 0.2 to compute the exponential smoothing values for the time series. compute mse and a forecast for week 7.d. compare the three-week moving average forecast with the exponential smoothingforecast using a 5 0.2. which appears to provide the better forecast based on mse? explain. e. use trial and error to find a value of the exponential smoothing coefficient a thatresults in a smaller mse than what you calculated for a 5 0.2.

12. to produce a textured purée, you would use a/an a. food processor. b. wide-mesh sieve. c. immersion blender d. food mill.

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.

Mystic bottling company bottles popular beverages in the bottling department. the beverages are produced by blending concentrate with water and sugar. the concentrate is purchased from a concentrate producer. the concentrate producer sets higher prices for the more popular concentrate flavors. a simplified bottling department cost of production report separating the cost of bottling the four flavors follows: