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Use Solver to determine the alpha that minimizes the MSE for the exponential smoothing forecast for...

Use Solver to determine the alpha that minimizes the MSE for the exponential smoothing forecast for the data that appear in this table. Use the actual demand of period 1 as the forecast for period 2 and then use the forecasts for periods 2 through 9 to calculate MSE.

Period Demand
1 272
2 278
3 269
4 280
5 267
6 258
7 278
8 298
9 286
10 290

0.66

0.39

0.57

0.48

0 0
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Answer #1

Create Solver model as follows:

EXCEL FORMULAS:

Click Solve on Solver Parameters to determine the optimal value of smoothing constant

Optimal value of Smoothing constant = 0.071

Out of the given four answer options,  0.39 is the best value of smoothing constant, however, it gives MSE of 158.5417, which is not the lowest.

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