Betty's House of Waffles Uses a Weighted Moving Average Method

question 88

Multiple Choice

Betty's House of Waffles uses a weighted moving average method to forecast waffle sales. It assigns a weight of 7 to the previous month's demand, 4 to demand two months ago, and 3 to demand three months ago. If sales amounted to 1400 waffles in May, 1700 waffles in June, and 2200 waffles in July, what should be the forecast for August?

• A) 1410
• B) 1885
• C) 1967
• D) 2067
• E) 1622

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