The manager of alaina's garden center must make the annual purchasing plans for rakes, gloves, and other gardening items. one of the items the company stocks is fast-grow, a liquid fertilizer. the sales of this item are seasonal, with peaks in the spring, summer, and fall months. quarterly demand (in cases) for the past two years is as follows:
quarter year 1 year 2
1 41 58
2 344 473
3 287 313
4 212 277
total 884 1,121
if the expected sales for fast-grow are 1,298 cases for year 3, use the multiplicative seasonal method to prepare a forecast for each quarter of the year. (round all intermediate calculations to three decimal places.) the
first quarter forecast cases.

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