(Solved Homework): A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-manager hopes…

A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-manager hopes to improve scheduling of part-time employees by determining seasonal relatives for each of these days. Data on recent traffic at the center have been tabulated and are shown in the following table:

	Week
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Friday	148	151	154	152	156	163
Saturday	252	256	264	266	275	276
Sunday	168	161	174	173	177	184

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a.	Develop seasonal relatives for the shop using the centered moving average method. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)


Friday
Saturday
Sunday

b.	Develop seasonal relatives for the shop using the SA method. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 4 decimal places.)

	SA Index
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

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Answer

(a)

Period	Day	traffic	CMA	traffic / CMA	average	Seasonal index
1	Fri	148			0.7849	0.7856
2	Sat	252	189.33	1.3310	1.3429	1.3439
3	Sun	168	190.33	0.8827	0.8698	0.8705
4	Fri	151	191.67	0.7878	0.9992
5	Sat	256	189.33	1.3521
6	Sun	161	190.33	0.8459
7	Fri	154	193.00	0.7979
8	Sat	264	197.33	1.3378
9	Sun	174	196.67	0.8847
10	Fri	152	197.33	0.7703
11	Sat	266	197.00	1.3503
12	Sun	173	198.33	0.8723
13	Fri	156	201.33	0.7748
14	Sat	275	202.67	1.3569
15	Sun	177	205.00	0.8634
16	Fri	163	205.33	0.7938
17	Sat	276	207.67	1.3291
18	Sun	184

(b)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	Seasonal Avg	Seasonal Indices
Friday	148	151	154	152	156	163	154.000	0.7808
Saturday	252	256	264	266	275	276	264.833	1.3428
Sunday	168	161	174	173	177	184	172.833	0.8763
							197.222

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