GSCM 209 Week 3 Quiz

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1. (TCO 1) As compared to long-range forecasts, short-range forecasts
2. (TCOs 3 and 4) A fundamental distinction between trend projection and linear regression is that
3. Weekly sales of 10-grain bread at the local organic food market are provided in the table below. Based on these data, forecast Week 9 using a 6-week moving average. 
4. Week Sales (1) 415 (2) 389 (3) 420 (4) 382 (5) 410 (6) 432 (7) 405 (8) 421
5. (TCOs 3, 4, and 5) An innovative restaurateur owns and operates a dozen "Ultimate Low-Carb" restaurants in northern Arkansas. His signature item is a cheese-encrusted beef medallion wrapped in lettuce. Sales (x, in millions of dollars) is related to profits (y-hat, in hundreds of thousands of dollars) by the regression equation y-hat = 7.21 + 0.83x. What is your forecast of profit for a store with sales of $40 million? $50 million?