Question

Our last four periods had sales, from oldest to most recent, of 100, 200, 130, and 300. what is the three-period ma

Answer 1

Sales during the last four periods are in the order from older to recent as 100, 200, 130, and 300. Moving average is a successive average calculated from the successive segments. So the third month moving average MA3 = (200 + 130 + 300) / 3 = 630 / 3 = 210 So the answer is 210.