Discuss the below:
Q: A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The manager hopes to improve scheduling of part-time employees by understanding if any historical patterns exist in recent data that was collected on recent traffic (i.e., number of tourists) at the center that is shown below:
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Week 1
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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Week 5
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Week 6
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Friday
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140
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150
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155
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145
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160
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150
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Saturday
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250
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255
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260
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250
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265
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270
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Sunday
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160
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165
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170
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160
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165
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170
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Forecast the number of tourists that are expected to frequent the tourist center on Friday of week 7 using each of the following forecasting methods (make sure that you utilize the entire data set for all 6 weeks in generating the forecasts):