A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-m

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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

    

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

    

    

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

Week

1 2 3 4 5 6   Friday 148 155 151 152 156 160   Saturday 253 259 264 266 272 279   Sunday 169 163 171 174 177 184

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MA Seasonality (demand / MA) Friday 1 148 2 155 151.3333 3 151 152.6667 152.3333 4 152 153.0000 153.8889 157.4815 0.97 5 156 156.0000 166.2222 6 160 189.6667 Saturday 1 253 2 259 258.6667 3 264 263.0000 263.0000 4 266 267.3333 267.5556 263.4815 1.01 5 272 272.3333 259.8889 6 279 240.0000 Sunday 1 169 2 163 167.6667 3 171 169.3333 170.3333 4 174 174.0000 173.8889 172.1111 1.01 5 177 178.3333 6 184

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